Kunqu Sings Traditional Chinese Masculinities
Joseph Lam - Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Room 301
81 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
6511
This presentation examines the ways in which kunqu, an operatic genre of Chinese performance arts, provides objects, sites, and processes for traditional Chinese men to negotiate their masculinities. In particular, this presentation posits that traditional Chinese men manipulate kunqu arias/music to underscore the subjective and oftentimes conflicting components of their manhood.
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China, Taiwan, Hong Kong