Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi (SOAS Musicology Series)

by StephenJones (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $159.32

  Presents a study of Chinese shawm bands in their ceremonial and social context. Based in a county in Shanxi province in northwestern China, this work describes the painful maintenance of ceremonial and its music there under Maoism, its revival with the market reforms of the 1980s and its modification under the assault of pop music since the 1990s.