Instrumental Lives: Musical Instruments, Material Culture, and Social Networks in East and Southeast Asia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252045920 ISBN 13: 9780252045929

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link these objects to their materials of manufacture, the surrounding environment, the social networks they form and help sustain, and the wider ethnic or national imagination. Rees organizes the essays to reflect three angles of inquiry. The first section explores the characteristics and social roles of various categories of instruments, including the koto and an extinct Balinese wooden clapper. In section two, essayists focus on the life stories of individual instruments ranging from an heirloom Chinese qin to end-blown flutes in rural western Mongolia. Essays in the third section examine the ethics and other issues that surround instrument collections, but also show how collecting is a dynamic process that transforms an instrument’s habitat and social roles.

Original and expert, Instrumental Lives brings a new understanding of how musical instruments interact with their environments and societies. Contributors: Supeena Insee Adler, Marie-Pierre Lissoir, Terauchi Naoko, Jennifer C. Post, Helen Rees, Xiao Mei, Tyler Yamin, and Bell Yung

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology and the director of the World Music Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252045920
• ISBN 13: 9780252045929
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Rees Helen
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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