Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0195129490
9780195129496
0195129504
9780195129502
1429401699
9781429401692
1280530529
9781280530524
9786610530526
6610530521
0198029632
9780198029632
0195351622
9780195351620
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259), discography (p. 261) , videography (p. 263) , and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Rees, Helen, 1964- Echoes of history. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
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