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Echoes of History Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Echoes of History By Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Echoes of History by Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)

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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.

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Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China by Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)

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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Deserves to be widely read. It is carefully researched, accompanied by a valuable CD, and nicely written throughout * Music and Letters *
Rees's book presents numerous fresh perspectives of considerable relevance to our understanding of the broader musical culture of this huge country ... this is a very good book * Music and Letters *
This book usefully includes a well-documented CD of her field recordings ... and her account is framed firmly within current ethno-musicological discourses ... Ethnographies of Chinese music are still relatively rare, and fine-grained ones such as Echoes of History are rarer still. * Keith Howard, Times Literary Supplement *

About Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)

Helen Rees is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1989 she has carried out research on the traditional and tourist-oriented musics of the Naxi ethnis minority and Han ethnic majority of Yunnan Province, southwest China. She is also co-editor of Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology (1999).

Table of Contents

1: Ethnic Minorities and the Chinese State 2: The Naxi of Lijiang County 3: The Music World of Republican Lijiang 4: Dongjing Music and Local Interaction in Repubican Lijiang 5: The Wider World Comes to Lijiang: the Musical Impact 6: Have Music, Will Travel: The Dongjing Music Revival 7: Representations and Ethnicity Conclusion Appendix A: Dongjing Scriptures of Lijiang County Appendix B: Temple Interiors for Dongjing Ceremonies in Dayan Town Appendix C: Chinese Texts Appendix D: Glossary of Chinese Characters

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NPB9780195129496
9780195129496
0195129490
Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China by Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)
Helen Rees (Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2000-12-21
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