Gender in Chinese music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Harris, Rachel (Rachel A.) (Author, Editor), Pease, Rowan (Author, Editor), Tan, Shzr Ee (Author, Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Rochester, New York : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2013.
Series:	Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 4.
Subjects:	Gender identity in music. Music > China > History and criticism. Music > Social aspects > China.

Table of Contents:

Gender and music in local communities / Stephen Jones
The pleasures of print : illustrated songbooks from the late Ming courtesan world / Judith T. Zeitlin
From courtesans to modern hostesses : music and construction of gender in the entertainment industry in China / Tiantian Zheng
An interview with Zhang Han, karaoke bar host / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
Impulsive scholars and sentimental heroes : contemporary Kunqu discourses of traditional Chinese masculinities / Joseph Lam
An interview with Madame Zinnia Kwok, amateur opera singer / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
Men behaving badly? : shawm bands of north China / Stephen Jones
An interview with Coco Zhao, Shanghai jazz singer / conducted by Ruard Absaroka
New Chinese masculinities on the piano : Lang Lang and Li Yundi / Shzr Ee Tan
An interview with Aloysius Lee, fan of singer Faye Wong / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
"I prefer a man who is fresh like a jumping fish" : gender issues in Shan'ge, Chinese popular rural song / Frank Kouwenhoven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck
An interview with Liu Sola, composer, singer, visual artist, and novelist / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
Broken voices : ethnic singing and gender / Rowan Pease
An interview with Li Sisong, producer and songwriter / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
"Mother's daughter" : gender narratives in Nuosu-Yi women's musical expressive forms / Olivia Kraef
An interview with Xiao Mei, ethnomusicologist / conducted by Shzr Ee Tan
"Doing Satan's business" : negotiating gendered concepts of music and ritual in rural Xinjiang / Rachel Harris
Bodies, gender, and worldviews : Me-mot spirit mediums in the Jingxi region of Guangxi / Xiao Mei
Vegetarian sisters : new configurations of gender in buddhism in southern Fujian / Hwee-San Tan.