Echoes of history : Naxi music in modern China /
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| Author / Creator: | Rees, Helen, 1964- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | OUP E-Books. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11154524 |
| Summary: | Based on extensive fieldwork and documentary research in China, this book is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province. It focuses on Dongjing music, a 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. The first in English on this rich musical tradition, this book is also unique in providing a complete history of the music in a single region in China over the twentieth century. It integrates individual, local, and national histories with musical experience and musical change. Ethnic music in China provides a vivid example of the tremendous cultural changes over the past century, and the tradition continues to evolve as China encourages ethnic diversity within a unified socialist nation. The book includes a case study of China's tourist trade and its policies toward minorities. |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259), discography (p. 261) , videography (p. 263) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195129490 9780195129496 0195129504 9780195129502 1429401699 9781429401692 1280530529 9781280530524 9786610530526 6610530521 0198029632 9780198029632 0195351622 9780195351620 |