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Echoes of History : Naxi Music in Modern China.

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 Li...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rees, Helen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (295 pages)
ISBN:9780195351620
0195351622