| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally presented as the author's thesis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259), discography (page 261), videography (page 263), and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Naxi (Chinese people) -- China -- Lijiang Naxizu Zizhixian -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Folk music -- China -- Lijiang Naxizu Zizhixian -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rees, Helen, 1964- Echoes of history. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 (DLC) 99054366 |
| ISBN |
0195129490 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195129496 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0195129504 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195129502 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1429401699 (electronic book) |
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9781429401692 (electronic book) |
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1280530529 |
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9781280530524 |
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