| Titre | “The Song of Selling Olives”: Acoustic Experience and Cantonese Identity in Canton, Hong Kong, and Macau across the Great Divide of 1949 | |
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| Auteur | Nga Li Lam | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 2019/3 Sinophone Musical Worlds (1) | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special feature |
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| Page | 9-16 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This essay looks into the cultural identity and acoustic experience shared among Canton, Hong Kong, and Macau through “The Song of Selling Olives,” a piece from Siu Yuet Pak – a 1950 Cantonese opera adaptation of Flame of Lust , a 1948 story broadcasted in Canton (as Guangzhou was known in the Republican era) that soon become a household name across the region. By means of archival research and close-reading, I will explicate ways in which the song appropriates the cultural icon of Siu Yuet-pak and re-invents the tradition of “selling olives,” projecting the boundary-crossing experience among the three Cantonese-speaking areas in a time of frequent exchanges, occasional competition, and potential disconnection from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/9321 |
