{"product_id":"chinatown-opera-theater-in-north-america-music-in-american-life-9780252082030","title":"Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Music in American Life)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChinatown Opera Theater in North America (Music in American Life)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780252082030.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAwards:\nIrving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019\nMusic in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018\nCertificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018\nOutstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019\n\nThe 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\nDrawing 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 Chinatowns 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986221887541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252082036","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252082030_4df05da0-1cc5-4a54-8e30-254c2b84c242.jpg?v=1778706577","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chinatown-opera-theater-in-north-america-music-in-american-life-9780252082030","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}