壮族歌仙的定位:刘三姐与音乐表演中的空间和性别问题

Locating Goddess of Zhuang Song: Third Sister Liu and Issues of Place and Gender in Musical Performance

作为广西音乐遗产中的偶像,刘三姐的形象被一再情境化。近年来,以刘三姐为核心打造的景点层出不穷,她的家乡、广西地方以及少数民族族群都将刘三姐当成富有竞争力的标识。文化表演《印象.刘三姐》力图展示地方社会,但对于刘三姐该被如何表现却引发了当地关于艺术与挪用的公开论争。基于2003–2004年《印象.刘三姐》制作期间进行的田野调查,对广西最富盛名的这一文化表演中所呈现出的民族展示与文化所有权问题进行了研究,概述了相关论争并探讨了这类利用共享的文化资源、以盈利为目的的冒险性表演所蕴含的意义。

Third Sister Liu has been situated and resituated as an icon of Guangxi musical heritage and has recently been the focus of several new sites, serving as competitive place markers to her homeplace as well as Guangxi place and ethnicity. This paper discusses issues of ethnic representation and cultural property as it relates to what is perhaps the most-visited cultural performance in Guangxi： Impressions Third Sister Liu. Despite efforts to create a performance that celebrates the local community, local arguments over how Third Sister Liu should be represented forced public discussions of artistry and appropriation. Drawing on fieldwork in 2003 - 2004 during the production of Impressions Third Sister Liu, this paper outlines these arguments and discusses implications for such for-profit performance ventures that draw upon shared cultural resources.