Drums and drum ensembles along the Great Silk Road / edited by Xiao Mei and Gisa Jähnichen, Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Council for Traditional Music. International Colloquium (27th : 2020 : Shanghai, China)

Contributor:

Mei, Xiao, editor.

Jähnichen, Gisa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Percussion ensembles.

Drum--History.

Drum.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

vi, 206 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Logos Verlag Berlin, [2021]

Summary:

This volume comprises fifteen selected papers in five chapters from the 27th ICTM Colloquium on Drums and Drum Ensembles along the Great Silk Road (28-30 December 2020, Shanghai, China). It testifies to how human cultures are never created in seclusion. The richness of drums and drum ensembles, including their repertoires, are also connected to long-term exchanges in military affairs, trades, and religions of various peoples. Despite the obvious prevalence of drums among all peoples around the world, their understanding and their repertoires vary due to different contexts. The studies of music originating on the Silk Road presented in this volume pay particular attention to the multiple flows of knowledge between numerous distinctive regions in the narrower geographical and temporal scope.

Contents:

Preface iii. Xiao Mei. Chapter 1: Features of Africa and the Middle East. Drum playing in Yemen / Jürgen Elsner

Speaking and talking drums: Marfaʹ and Tāsah as means of nonverbal communication in the Highlands of Yemen / Ulrike Stohrer

The Nägarit kettledrum in past and present day Ethiopia / Timkehet Teffera

Drums and drum ensembles in performance of the Middle East and North Africa in available video resources / Neil van der Linden

Chapter 2: Frame drums and shamanism. Is the Rebgong flat drum a shaman drum? / Bernhard Kleikamp

From 'Guoruo' to the 'Guairu Festival': the 'making of intangible cultural heritage' of the percussion instruments... / Liu Guiteng

Chapter 3: Southeast Asian histories. The praise drum in the context of the North Vietnamese Ca Trù / Gisa Jähnichen

Research on movable membrane drums in Guangxi province and their functional characteristics / Lu song

Frame drum ensembles in Muslim Balinese culture / Mashino Ako

Study on ceramic hourglass drums of Guangxi ceramics on the Silk Road / Wu Ninghua and Zheng Lijun

Chapter 4: South Asian aspects. Hierarchies in local drumming practices of Sri Lanka and the art of sustaining traditions / Chinthaka P. Meddegoda

Creating a transcription system for Konnakil and its virtual transmission / Carlos Yoder

Chapter 5: Western Chinese practices. Wind and percussion music during weddings in Turpan Lukeqin / Cui Bin

An exploratory research on the rhythmic characteristics of Xinjiang Uyghur Dap / Peng Yu

Study of drum making in Late-Tang Dunhuang / Zhu Xiaofeng.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783832553982

3832553983

OCLC:

1354949858