Book & DVD. Features: Two Different Beats to a Single Drum: An Analysis of Old & New Stiles of Hachijo-Daiko (Jane Alaszewska); Living Early Composition: An App
Gender in Chinese Music draws together contributions from ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars to explore how music is implicated in chang
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary discussion on the relationship between the vocal and the instrumental in music and other arts and in everyday communi
This book, with its accompanying DVD, gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. It conveys
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