Chinese Singing Contests as Sites of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions

IF 0.4 3区 社会学 0 FOLKLORE JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH Pub Date : 2018-03-16 DOI:10.2979/JFOLKRESE.55.1.03
L. Gibbs
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Abstract:This article explores the function of Chinese singing competitions as "mechanisms of traditionalization" where singers, judges, and other individuals interact with and reconfigure performance traditions. Focusing on case studies of professional folksingers from northern China who became famous after appearing on national singing competitions, I argue that participating in contests not only raises the status of individual performers, but also repositions songs, singing styles, and regions within particular performance traditions and the national mediascape as a whole. In addition, narratives of participation and success in contests sometimes connect singer-contestants to other more established singers in mutually beneficial ways. I urge us to view competitions in a singer's career as a series of liminal spaces—rather than as simple contests between individual artists—where the singer and other individuals negotiate choices between continuity and change in representing performance traditions.
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中国歌唱比赛是个体与传统的谈判场所
摘要:本文探讨了中国歌唱比赛作为“传统化机制”的功能,歌手、评委和其他个人在其中与表演传统互动并重新配置表演传统。通过对北方专业民间歌手参加全国歌唱比赛后成名的个案研究,我认为参加比赛不仅提高了表演者个人的地位,而且在特定的表演传统和整个国家媒体景观中重新定位了歌曲、演唱风格和地域。此外,关于参赛和比赛成功的叙述有时会以互利的方式将歌手参赛者与其他知名歌手联系起来。我敦促我们将歌手职业生涯中的比赛视为一系列的极限空间,而不是单个艺术家之间的简单比赛,在这里,歌手和其他人在代表表演传统的连续性和变化之间进行选择。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Folklore Research has provided an international forum for current theory and research among scholars of traditional culture since 1964. Each issue includes topical, incisive articles of current theoretical interest to folklore and ethnomusicology as international disciplines, as well as essays that address the fieldwork experience and the intellectual history of folklore and ethnomusicology studies. Contributors include scholars and professionals in additional fields, including anthropology, area studies, communication, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performance studies, religion, and semiotics.
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