Echoes of History : Naxi Music in Modern China
by
Helen Rees
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195129490
ISBN-13
9780195129496
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 21st, 2000
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
567 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 15.50 x 2.30 cms
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Based on fieldwork and documentary research, this study is a chronicle of 200 years 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.
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, 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.
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