Ritual and Music of North China, Volume 2: Shaanbei : v. 2 (SOAS Musicology Series)

by StephenJones (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $159.32

  Gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. This book and DVD, gives the background to the area and music-making in society. It also discusses the lives of bards and shawm bands respectively, describing modifications in their ceremonial activities through the 20th century.

• New

  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.