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Chinatown Opera Theater in North America
Contributor(s): Rao, Nancy Yunhwa (Author)
ISBN: 0252040562     ISBN-13: 9780252040566
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
OUR PRICE:   $123.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies
- Music | Genres & Styles - Opera
Dewey: 782.109
LCCN: 2016957566
Series: Music in American Life
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.95 lbs) 440 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
 
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Awards:
Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019

The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre-World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities

Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.