Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China

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1: Ethnic Minorities and the Chinese State 2: The Naxi of Lijiang County 3: The Music World of Republican Lijiang 4: Dongjing Music and Local Interaction in Repubican Lijiang 5: The Wider World Comes to Lijiang: the Musical Impact 6: Have Music, Will Trav
Conclusion
Appendix A: Dongjing Scriptures of Lijiang County
Appendix B: Temple Interiors for Dongjing Ceremonies in Dayan Town
Appendix C: Chinese Texts
Appendix D:
Glossary of Chinese Characters

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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, 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.

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This book usefully includes a well-documented CD of her field recordings ... and her account is framed firmly within current ethno-musicological discourses ... Ethnographies of Chinese music are still relatively rare, and fine-grained ones such as Echoes of History are rarer still

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