Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China

by Levi S. Gibbs

Book Overview

When itinerant singers from China's countryside become iconic artists, worlds collide. The lives and performances of these representative singers become sites for conversations between the rural and urban, local and national, folk and elite, and traditional and modern. In Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China , Levi S. Gibbs examines the life and performances of "Folksong King of Western China" Wang Xiangrong (b. 1952)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824869915
• ISBN13: 9780824869915
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"