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Paperback / softback. New. This second volume of Stephen Jones' work on ritual and musical life in north China, again with an accompanying DVD, gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000, from the barrage of pop music blaring from speakers in the bustling county-towns to the life-cycle and calendrical ceremonies of poor mountain villages. Based on the practice of grass-roots music-making in daily life, not merely on official images, the main theme is the painful maintenance of ritual and its music under Maoism, its revival with the market reforms of the 1980s, and its modification under the assaults of TV, pop music, and migration since the 1990s. The text is in four parts. Part One gives background to the area and music-making in society. Parts Two and Three discuss the lives of bards and shawm bands respectively, describing modifications in their ceremonial…
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by Stephen Jones
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- Title Ritual and Music of North China: Volume 2: Shaanbei
- Author Stephen Jones
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2017
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- ISBN 9781138056787 / 1138056782
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- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Dewey Decimal Code 784.890
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