Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

The Women of Quyi (eBook, PDF)

Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing substantially on original ethnographic fieldwork from the 1980s and 1990s, Lawson demonstrates how the women of quyi - a community of Chinese female singers in Republican Tianjin - successfully negotiated their sexuality and vocality in performance. Owing to their role as third-person narrators, the women of quyi bridged the gender gap in Chinese performance, creating an androgynous persona that allowed them to showcase their voices on public stages; places that had been previously unwelcoming to conventional female performers. This is a story about female storytellers who sang their way to respectability and social change by minimizing their bodies to allow their voices to be heard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315307862
• Artikelnr.: 47902849

Autorenporträt

Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Female Voice and Body Problem
Chapter 2: Literary Voices: Metaphysical Heroines
Chapter 3: Musical Voices: Between Text and Tune
Chapter 4: Liminal Voices: Transferring Artistry from Master to Disciple
Conclusion: Masters of Liminal Space
Epilogue