Table of Contents

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 Travel: The Dongjing Music Revival
7: Representations and Ethnicity
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

About the Author

Helen Rees is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1989 she has carried out research on the traditional and tourist-oriented musics of the Naxi ethnis minority and Han ethnic majority of Yunnan Province, southwest China. She is also co-editor of Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology (1999).

Reviews

Full of intriguing details, with a wonderful accompanying CD illustrating Dongjing music in different contexts as well as a variety of other musics ... This is a rich meaty, absorbing and thought-provoking book, which will undoubtedly stimulate lively debates among the ethnomusicological community at all levels. British Journal of Ethnomusicology 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. Keith Howard, Times Literary Supplement