Title: Chinese folk songs and folk singers
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Folk music, Folk songs, History and criticism, Folk musicians, Chinese Folk songs, History
Places: China, Jiangsu Sheng
LC classification: ML3746.7.K5 S35 1997