Instrumental Music of Wutaishan's Buddhist Monasteries
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Author_Beth Szczepanski
Buddhist liturgy studies
Buddhist Music
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China Central Television
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Chinese Buddhist Monasteries
Chinese Monasteries
Chinese ritual music
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ethnomusicology China
fang
Fang Yankou
fieldwork Wutaishan monasteries
Guanzi Player
Huayan Jing
instruments
Jing Ping
Jing Weigang
La Si
Li Na
Mao Zedong
Melodic Instrumental Music
Mi Fa
monastic wind instruments
Notation Booklets
pusa
Pusa Ding
religious music transmission
Sheng Mouth Organ
shengguan
shengguan ensemble
Shengguan Music
shuxiang
Shuxiang Si
wind
Wutaishan Buddhist Music
Wutaishan's Monasteries
Yang Yinliu
yankou
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409427438
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Beth Szczepanski examines how traditional and modern elements interact in the current practice, reception and functions of wind music, or shengguan, at monasteries in Wutaishan, one of China's four holy mountains of Buddhism. The book provides an invaluable insight into the political and economic history of Wutaishan and its music, as well as the instrumentation, notation, repertoires, transmission and ritual function of monastic music at Wutaishan, and how that music has adapted to China's current economic, political and religious climate. The book is based on extensive field research at Wutaishan from 2005 to 2007, including interviews with monks, nuns, pilgrims and tourists. The author learned to play the sheng mouth organ and guanzi double-reed pipe, and recorded dozens of performances of monastic and lay music. The first extensive examination of Wutaishan's music by a Western scholar, the book brings a new perspective to a topic long favored by Chinese musicologists. At the same time, the book provides the non-musical scholar with an engaging exploration of the historical, political, economic and cultural forces that shape musical and religious practices in China.
Dr Beth Szczepanski, Lecturer, Ohio State University, USA
