Echoes of history : Naxi music in modern China / Helen Rees.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2000.]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1429401699
- 9781429401692
- 1280530529
- 9781280530524
- 9786610530526
- 6610530521
- ML3746.7.8
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Originally presented as the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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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