Harmony and Counterpoint : Ritual Music in Chinese Context / ed. by Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, Rubie S. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boltz, Judith Magee, Contributor.

Judd, Ellen R., Contributor.

Lam, Joseph S. C., Contributor.

Li, Ping-Hui, Contributor.

Provine, Robert C., Contributor.

Rawski, Evelyn S., Contributor.

Rawski, Evelyn S., Editor.

Rees, Helen, Contributor.

Watson, Rubie S., Contributor.

Watson, Rubie S., Editor.

Yung, Bell, Contributor.

Yung, Bell, Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables, Maps, and Figures

Contributors

Introduction

1. The Nature of Chinese Ritual Sound

Part I: Behind the Scenes: Creating Legitimacy

2. Ritual and Musical Politics in the Court of Ming Shizong

3. State Sacrificial Music and Korean Identity

4. Musical Assertion of Status Among the Naxi of Lijiang County, Yunnan

Part II: Musical Transformations: Rites of Passage

5. Chinese Bridal Laments: The Claims of a Dutiful Daughter

6. Processional Music in Traditional Taiwanese Funerals

7. The Creation of an Emperor in Eighteenth-Century China

Part III: Musical Transcendence: Rituals of Propitiation

8. Singing to the Spirits of the Dead: A Daoist Ritual of Salvation

9. Ritual Opera and the Bonds of Authority: Transformation and Transcendence

Reference Matter

Notes

Works Cited

Index-Glossary

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

0-8047-6490-5

OCLC:

1294424990