Huju Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai

Name: Huju Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai
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ISBN: 9780197262733

ISBN-10: 0197262732

ISBN-13: 9780197262733

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jonathan P. J. Stock

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China has over three hundred distinct styles of music drama, from exorcism theatre to farce, historical romance, and shadow puppetry. This study considers one of the newer operatic forms. Established just two centuries ago, huju (Shanghai opera), is renowned for its portrayal of ordinary people, not the emperors, courtesans, and heroes of older forms. Acting and make-up aim for realism rather than symbolism, and stories deal with contemporaneous themes: the struggles of lovers tomarry, women's rights after the Communist revolution (1949), and life under the new social order established by Deng Xiaoping's reforms in the 1980s. Music ranges from local folksong to syncretic adoptions of…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/19/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.57" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Introduction


he Rise of Local Opera form in east China, up to 1920


Female roles and the Rise of Actresses, 1915-c.1950


Place and Music: Local Opera in Shanghai, 1912-49


Huju and the politics of revolution, post-1949


Ethnomusicological Research in an Urban Setting