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Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi

Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi

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Series: Soas Studies in Music

General MusicMusic Instruction: GeneralWorld Music

ISBN10: 1138056723
ISBN13: 9781138056725
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 14 2017
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The rich local traditions of musical life in rural China are still little known. Music-making in village society is largely ceremonial, and shawm bands account for a major part of such music. This is the first major ethnographic study of Chinese shawm bands in their ceremonial and social context. Based in a poor county in Shanxi province in northwe

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