Mediating Gospel Singing: Audiovisual Recording and the Transformation of Voice among the Christian Lisu in Post-2000 Nujiang, China

Abstract

In 1928, missionaries of the China Inland Mission (CIM), an interdenominational missionary society founded in Britain in 1865, established their first station in Yunnan's northwestern Nujiang, a border region renowned for its ethnic diversity and spectacular river gorge. 1 Since then not only Christian doctrine but also congregational hymn singing have been introduced to the Lisu, an ethnic group of over one million people who reside mainly in China's southwestern Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, in Myanmar's Kachin and Shan states, in northern Thailand, and in India's northeastern Arunachal Pradesh. 2 Ddoqmuq mutgguat (literally, "songs of praise"), a majority of which were translated from gospel songs from the northern United States by Philip P. Bliss, Ira D. Sankey, and other Evangelical composers, constitute the majority of Lisu hymns. 3 Characterized by The author is grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for funding her fieldwork that forms the basis for this article, as well as to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Germany for supporting the follow-up fieldwork in Myanmar and for the completion of this article. The author extends her gratitude to the editors of Yale Journal of Music & Religion and to the two anonymous reviewers for the helpful feedback.

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