Singing dead tales to life : Rhetorical strategies in Shandong fast tales

dc.contributor.author	Shepherd, Eric	eng
dc.date.issued	2011-03	eng
dc.description	Shandong kuaishu, literally "fast tales," is a northern Chinese narrative performance1 tradition with more than one hundred years of documented history. This tradition involves a single performer who integrates rhymed and rhythmic narration, character dialogue, various dramatic techniques, rhythmic musical accompaniment, humor, and exaggeration to bring to life stories and characters in a form of popular entertainment. Performers describe the genre as a folk art that combines the artistic telling of stories with rhyme and rhythm. Fast tales are performed throughout northern and central China for a wide range of audiences and occasions. Performers appear on and off proscenium stages, on television, radio, and the Internet as well as during rural bazaars, as part of holiday variety shows, and for celebratory banquets (Shepherd 2005). Story scripts, or jiaoben, are also regularly appreciated as a form of popular literature in various written and electronic formats.	eng
dc.description	Note	eng
dc.format.extent	44 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 26/1 (2011): 27-70.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65229
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Singing dead tales to life : Rhetorical strategies in Shandong fast tales	eng
dc.type	Article	eng