Echoes of History

Naxi Music in Modern China

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Based on fieldwork and documentary research in China, this study is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province. It focuses on Dongjing music, repertoire borrowed from China's Han ethnic majority by the indigenous Naxi inhabitants of Lijiang County. Used in Confucian worship as well as in secular entertainment, Dongjing music played a key role the Naxi minority's assimilation of Han culture over the last 200 years. Prized for its complexity and elegance, which set it apart from "rough" or "simpler" indigenous Naxi music, Dongjing played an important role in defining social relationships, since proficiency in the music and membership in the Dongjing associations signified high social status and cultural refinement. In addition, there is a strong political component in its examination of the role of indigenous music in the relation of a socialist state to its ethnic minorities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:484 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:9780195129502

Utforska kategorier

Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
Folkmusik inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Helen Rees is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1989 she has carried out research on the traditional and tourist-oriented musics of the Naxi ethnis minority and Han ethnic majority of Yunnan Province, southwest China. She is also co-editor of Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology (1999).

Recensioner i media

Full of intriguing details, with a wonderful accompanying CD illustrating Dongjing music in different contexts as well as a variety of other musics ... This is a rich meaty, absorbing and thought-provoking book, which will undoubtedly stimulate lively debates among the ethnomusicological community at all levels. British Journal of Ethnomusicology This book usefully includes a well-documented CD of her field recordings ... and her account is framed firmly within current ethno-musicological discourses ... Ethnographies of Chinese music are still relatively rare, and fine-grained ones such as Echoes of History are rarer still. Keith Howard, Times Literary Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

1: Ethnic Minorities and the Chinese State 2: The Naxi of Lijiang County 3: The Music World of Republican Lijiang 4: Dongjing Music and Local Interaction in Repubican Lijiang 5: The Wider World Comes to Lijiang: the Musical Impact 6: Have Music, Will Travel: The Dongjing Music Revival 7: Representations and Ethnicity Conclusion Appendix A: Dongjing Scriptures of Lijiang County Appendix B: Temple Interiors for Dongjing Ceremonies in Dayan Town Appendix C: Chinese Texts Appendix D: Glossary of Chinese Characters