Chinese folk songs and folk singers
Subtitle: shan'ge traditions in southern Jiangsu
By: door Antoinette Marie Schimmelpenninck.
Publisher: CHIME Foundation
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Folk music -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng -- History and criticism.; Folk songs -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng.; Folk musicians -- China -- Jiangsu Sheng.
Description: Introduction to shan'ge, the most popular type of rural Chinese folk song, and to the master performers, the 'kings' and 'queens' of this genre. A major focus of this study is monothematism: the existence of 'one-tune' folk song areas, where singers perform the bulk of their lyrics to a single tune or to two or three closely related tune forms. Monothematism is examined here in relation to tune variation, processes of remembering, and mechanisms of oral transmission.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-424) and index.
"Proefschrift."
Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral--Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, 1997).