xvii, 250 pages, illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
Summary
"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 borderlands has catalyzed a profound sociocultural change in the region. In Faith by Aurality in China's Ethnic Borderland, Ying Diao finds important sonic evidence for this religious revolution in a rapidly transforming northwest Yunnan, presenting a compelling account of China's minority-Christian landscape and highlighting the importance of aurality in the peripheral peoples' response to Christianity and other modernizing projects. Diao documents a range of sounded religious practices by the Lisu, an indigenous yet historically migratory people, to examine how participatory music production, circulation, and consumption become integral to indigenous perception and experience of faith. Weaving together evidence from multisite fieldwork, archival records, and audiovisual media, Diao demonstrates nuanced understanding of people of faith at the margin, one centered on the sensual and material dimensions of religion and on the intertwining of local agency and external hegemonic forces. As the first full-length ethnographic account of China's Christian minorities on a transnational scale to be published in English, this book provides historical and contextual information that enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global Christianity, ethnicity, media, and mobility while showing how sound can be an ambivalent but fruitful avenue through which ways of faith are constructed and remain fluid in a context where discussions and practices of religion are constrained"--
Series statement
Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology, 2161-0290 ; 15
Uniform title
Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 15.
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.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Diao, Ying, author.
Title
Faith by aurality in China's ethnic borderland : media, mobility, and Christianity at the margins / Ying Diao.
Publisher
Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
Type of content
text
Type of medium
unmediated
Type of carrier
volume
Series
Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology, 2161-0290 ; 15
Eastman/Rochester studies in ethnomusicology ; v. 15.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:
Online version: Diao, Ying. Faith by aurality in China's ethnic borderland Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023 9781805431282 (DLC) 2023020640