Ritual and Music of North China: Shawm Bands in Shanxi

By Stephen Jones

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138056723
• ISBN13: 9781138056725
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"