Minority stages : Sino-Indonesian performance and public display /

Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community's diverse performance practices are brought together as a family of genres. Combinin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stenberg, Josh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2019]
Series:Music and performing arts of Asia and the Pacific.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: performance in the background
  • Delighting verie much in playes and singing: four hundred years of Xiqu in the Archipelago
  • Glove, string, and shadow: Sino-Indonesian forms of Wayang
  • Five ancestors, twice over: Chinese-language spoken theatre in Indonesia
  • The disguised beloved: a Chinese narrative thread in commercial theatre
  • Alumni networks and hybrid dances: Sino-Indonesian voluntary associations and performance
  • Deities on parade: Sino-Indonesian ritual performance
  • Conclusion: hindsight and prospects.