Faith by aurality in China's ethnic borderland : media, mobility, and Christianity at the margins / Ying Diao.

"Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid the rapidly transforming religious landscape of China's ethnic borderland. The twentieth-century expansion of Protestantism among the upland peoples in the China-Southeast Asia bor...

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Uniform Title:Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 15.
Main Author: Diao, Ying (Author)
Language:English
Published: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
Series:Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 15.
Subjects:
Gospel music > China > Yunnan Sheng > History and criticism.
Gospel music > Burma > History and criticism.
Lisu (Southeast Asian people) > Music > History and criticism.
Lisu (Southeast Asian people) > Religion.
Music > China > Yunnan Sheng > Religious aspects.
Music > Burma > Religious aspects.
Protestantism > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Protestantism > Burma.
Gospel music.
Music > Religious aspects.
Protestantism.
Burma.
China > Yunnan Sheng.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xvii, 250 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Becoming the Faithful : Cleanliness and Conversion
  • Hearing the Return of Faith : Radio and Listening Audience
  • Producing Gospel Songs : Studio and Media Practitioners
  • Faces and Places : Sounds That Recognize
  • Traces of Faith : Sound Artifacts and Infrastructures
  • Performing Recorded Songs : Religiosity by Body
  • Hidden Faith : Sanitizing the Voice
  • Conclusion. Faith on the New Frontier.