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Echoes of history : Naxi music in modern China / Helen Rees.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Helen, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naxi (Chinese people)--China--Lijiang Naxizu Zizhixian--Music--History and criticism.
- Naxi (Chinese people).
- Folk music--China--Lijiang Naxizu Zizhixian--History and criticism.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 278 p. ) ill., maps, ports.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province. It focuses on the Dongjing music repertoire borrowed from China's Han ethnic majority by the 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. 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.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis.
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259), discography (pages 261), videography (pages 263), and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772784-0
- 1-280-53052-9
- 0-19-802963-2
- 0-19-535162-2
- 1-4294-0169-9
- OCLC:
- 960165081
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