Chinatown Opera Theater in North America: (Music in American Life)
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Nancy Yunhwa Rao (Author)
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Awards:
Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019
Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018
Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018
Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019
The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre-World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience. 64 black and white photographs, 1 map, 7 music examples, 15 tables, 2 figures CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Nancy Yunhwa Rao is an associate professor of music at Rutgers University.
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- Contributor: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252082030
- Number of Pages: 440
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x235x28mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 2017-01-11
- Series: Music in American Life
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Nancy Yunhwa Rao is an associate professor of music at Rutgers University.
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