Uncle Ng Comes to America – Chinese narrative songs of immigration and love (with DVD)

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編者： Bell Yung and Eleanor Yung
出版社：MCCM Creations
出版日期：2013年11月
ISBN/EAN：978-988-15218-4-2
頁數：72
規格：203mm x 228mm

This multimedia publication on narrative songs from southern China brings together audio recordings, documentary video, song texts and their English translation, as well as introductory essays. The songs, recorded in the early 1990s in New York City by the Asian American Arts Centre, were sung by Ng Sheung Chi, or Uncle Ng, of Toisan County (Taishan in Mandarin) in the Pearl River Delta. A farmer all his life but also a superb singer of a type of narrative folksong called muk’yu (“wooden fish”), Ng immigrated to New York in 1979 at the age of 69, and continued to sing his beloved muk’yu songs, on Chinatown street corners, in neighborhood parks, in community centers, and anywhere else, with or without an audience.