How does contemporary performance of Jiangnan sizhu music differ from performance of this music in the past?
What will be an ideal response?
• "Jiangnan sizhu music used to be played by hired instrumentalists at weddings and in local opera but it is better known as an amateur music today, most typically being performed in tea shops by groups of friends who have formed a music club . . . This change reflects a process of gentrification quite widely found in the history of Chinese music . . ." The low esteem of professional performers of this music in the past is being avoided by the current amateur performers who have moved their music-making to a different venue (tea shops rather than the earlier commercial settings of hired wedding and theater bands).
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