Ritual and Music of North China: Volume 2: Shaanbei - SOAS Studies in Music New edition

This book, with its accompanying downloadable resources, gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000, from the barrage of pop music blaring from speakers in the bustling county-towns to the life-cycle and calendrica