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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 to marry, 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 Western popular music." "A combination of urban and historical ethnomusicology, the book's findings will engage historians of China and general scholars of music alike."--Jacket.
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Hu ju: xian dai Shanghai de chuan tong xi qu = Huju : traditional opera in modern Shanghai
2009, Shanghai yin yue xue yuan chu ban she
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Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
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Huju: traditional opera in modern Shanghai
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