The Music Of Chinas Ethnic Minorities

Author : Yongxiang Li
Publisher : 中信出版社
ISBN 13 : 9787508510071
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of China's Ethnic Minorities written by Yongxiang Li and published by 中信出版社. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China boasts many great musical traditions, these traditions have made an indelible mark on Chinese culture that has been felt by every generation.

Author : Helen Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756791643
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of History written by Helen Rees and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, a 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 an important role in defining social relationships, since proficiency in the music and membership in the Dongjing associations signified high social status and cultural refinement. In addition, there is a strong political component in its examination of the role of indigenous music in the relation of a socialist state to its ethnic minorities.The first in English on this rich musical tradition, this book is also unique in providing a complete history of the music in a single region in China over the twentieth century. It integrates individual, local, and national histories with musical experience and musical change. Ethnic music in China provides a vivid example of the tremendous cultural changes over the past century, and the tradition continues to evolve as China encourages ethnic diversity within a unified socialist nation. The book includes a case study of China's tourist trade and its policies toward minorities.

Author : Helen Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198029632
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of History written by Helen Rees and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fieldwork and documentary research in China, this study 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 an important role in defining social relationships, since proficiency in the music and membership in the Dongjing associations signified high social status and cultural refinement. In addition, there is a strong political component in its examination of the role of indigenous music in the relation of a socialist state to its ethnic minorities.

Author : James Leibold
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208136
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minority Education in China written by James Leibold and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has been ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse. This volume recasts the pedagogical and policy challenges of minority education in China in the light of the state's efforts to balance unity and diversity. It brings together leading experts including both critical voices writing from outside China and those working inside China's educational system. The essays explore different aspects of ethnic minority education in China: the challenges associated with bilingual and trilingual education in Xinjiang and Tibet; Han Chinese reactions to preferential minority education; the ro.

Author : Nimrod Baranovitch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520234502
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's New Voices written by Nimrod Baranovitch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of popular music in contemporary China that focuses on how popular music has become a staging area for battles over politics and ethnic differences in China.

Author : Sara Leila Margaret Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231135270
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song and Silence written by Sara Leila Margaret Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sipsongpanna region of China, tourists watch festive displays of Tai Lüe folk song and dance. The Tai Lües are viewed by the Chinese government as a 'model minority'. Sara Davis describes how Tai Lües are reviving and reinventing their culture in ways that contest the official state version.

Author : 邢莉
Publisher : 中信出版社
ISBN 13 : 9787508509990
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Festivals of China's Ethnic Minorities written by 邢莉 and published by 中信出版社. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Republic of China is a great multi-ethnic tapestry composed of 56 ethnic groups each with their own culture, traditions and festivals.

Author : Lonán Ó Briain PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190626984
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Minorities written by Lonán Ó Briain PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, the Hmong have strategically maintained their cultural distance from foreign invaders and encroaching state agencies for almost two centuries. They use cultural heritage as a means of maintaining a resilient community identity, one which is malleable to their everyday needs and to negotiations among themselves and with others in the vicinity. Case studies of revolutionary songs, countercultural rock, traditional vocal and instrumental styles, tourist shows, animist and Christian rituals, and light pop from the diaspora illustrate the diversity of their creative outputs. This groundbreaking study reveals how performing arts shape understandings of ethnicity and nationality in contemporary Vietnam. Based on three years of fieldwork, Lonán Ó Briain traces the circulation of organized sounds that contribute to the adaptive capacities of this diverse social group. In an original investigation of the sonic materialization of social identity, the book outlines the full multiplicity of Hmong music-making through a fascinating account of music, minorities, and the state in a post-socialist context.

Author : Sara L. M. Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231509421
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song and Silence written by Sara L. M. Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sunny, subtropical Sipsongpanna region, Tai Lues perform flirtatious, exoticized dances for an increasingly growing tourist trade. Endorsed by Chinese officials, who view the Tai Lues as a "model minority," these staged performances are part of a carefully sanctioned ethnic policy. However, behind the scenes and away from the eyes and ears of tourists and the Chinese government, a different kind of cultural resurgence is taking place. In this vivid and beautifully told ethnography, Sara L. M. Davis reveals how Tai Lues are reviving and reinventing their culture in ways that contest the official state version. Carefully avoiding government repression, Tai Lues have rebuilt Buddhist temples and made them into vital centers for the Tai community to gather, discuss their future, and express discontent. Davis also describes the resurgence of the Tai language evident in a renewed interest in epic storytelling and traditional songs as well as the popularity of Tai pop music and computer publishing projects. Throughout her work, Davis weaves together the voices of monks, singers, and activists to examine issues of cultural authenticity, the status of ethnic minorities in China, and the growing cross-border contacts among Tai Lues in China, Thailand, Burma, and Laos.

Author : Robert C. Provine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351544292
Total Pages : 2195 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Robert C. Provine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 2195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them.