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Author Ng, Wing Chung, 1961- author.

Title The rise of Cantonese opera / Wing Chung Ng
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Formation of Cantonese opera in South China. Itinerant actors and red boats in the Pearl River Delta ; Urbanization of Cantonese opera ; Urban theater and its modern crisis -- Popular theater and the state. The cultural politics of theater reform ; The state, public order, and local theater in South China -- Local theater, transnational arena. Popular theater in the diaspora -- Theater as transnational business -- Theater and the immigrant public
Summary From village art form to global phenomenon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Operas, Chinese -- China -- Guangdong Sheng -- History and criticism
Operas, Chinese -- China -- Guangzhou -- History and criticism
Operas, Chinese -- China -- Hong Kong -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
Operas, Chinese
China -- Guangdong Sheng
China -- Guangzhou
China -- Hong Kong
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019719272
ISBN 9780252097096
0252097092