
Ritual and Music of North China
Shawm Bands in Shanxi
SOAS Studies in Music
Apraksts
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
