The Women of Quyi

Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies

Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23413-0 (ISBN)

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Why has the female voice—as the resonant incarnation of the female body—inspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from performing on the Chinese public stage? How have female roles and voices been appropriated by men throughout much of the history of Chinese theatre? Why were the women of quyi—a community of Chinese female singers in Republican Tianjin—able to become successful, respected artists when other female singers and actors in competing performance traditions struggled for acceptance? Drawing substantially on original ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson offers answers to these questions and demonstrates how the women of quyi successfully negotiated their sexuality and vocality in performance. Owing to their role as third-person narrators, the women of quyi bridged the gender gap, creating an androgynous persona that de-emphasized their feminine appearance and, at the same time, allowed them to showcase their female voices on public stages—places that had been previously unwelcoming to female artists. This is a story about female storytellers who sang their way to respectability and social change in the early decades of the twentieth century by minimizing their bodies in order to allow their voices to be heard.

Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	SOAS Studies in Music
Zusatzinfo	16 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-23413-3 / 1138234133
ISBN-13	978-1-138-23413-0 / 9781138234130
Zustand	Neuware