Academic Lecture (255): “Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artisry in Nineteenth-Century California Beyond”
Start Time
06 MAY, 202510:20 AM
End Time
06 MAY, 202512:10 PM
Location
No.1 Building R108Lecturer
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Lecturer: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Profile:
Nancy Yunhwa Rao has produced award-winning research on a range of topics, including gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans. Her publications have provided innovative analytical approaches to cross-cultural music, and enhanced public discussions about cultural encounter in music. Through her scholarship, as well as teaching, she has promoted diversity and advanced knowledge and dialogue about the complexity of diversity issues in music scholarship.Rao’s book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press, 2017), tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. She unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. It received Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society; Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music; and Book Award in Performance and Media, Associations for Asian American Studies.
