Tanjingde
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1942 in Shanghai. In 1962 he began to study Luogushu, the drum-and-gong narrative singing, and served as an accompanist in its ensemble; from 1963 he taught himself composition and scoring for Luogushu; in 1978 he took Hu Shanyan, head of the Nanhui Balladry Troupe, as his master; and he later collected and collated, from more than twenty folk artists in Shanghai, the vocal styles and related history of Luogushu over more than four decades. In 2006 he served as deputy director of the Nanhui District Office for the General Survey of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and he is currently an associate research librarian at the Nanhui District Cultural Centre of Shanghai, thoroughly versed in such traditional skills as the coordination of hand, eye, body, step and voice, and of speech, enactment, song, action and percussion. His representative works include A Kun Yi Sha (A Kun Moves the Sand), among others.
Honors & Recognition
Representative bearer of Luogushu, a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Luogushu Ⅴ-22
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