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Author: Joseph S.C. Lam
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.308kg
ISBN: 9780791437063
ISBN 10: 079143706
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 27 February 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Based upon careful and critical reading of a comprehensive body of source material, the author tells the story of state sacrifices and music in the Ming court, a set of practices and beliefs that, by Ming times, was already perceived to be two millennia old. With fascinating details, the author brings to vivid life conflicts and resolutions in the complex hierarchy of court politics between the emperor and his ritual and music specialists. The conflicts and resolutions in their preparation and implementation of these grand ceremonies underscore the universal concerns of constancy and change, orthodoxy and individuality, timelessness, and uniqueness. This book is rich in details, broad in scope, and sharp in its theoretical focus."" - Bell Yung, University of Pittsburgh ""This book reveals the central relationship between music and ritual in Ming China. Anyone who reads texts about Ming government is constantly confronted with statements identifying ritual and music as twin instruments of government. Nowhere in the scholarly literature is the nature of Ming music explained. Joseph S. C. Lam has now given us a guide to this important area."" - Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota
Based upon careful and critical reading of a comprehensive body of source material, the author tells the story of state sacrifices and music in the Ming court, a set of practices and beliefs that, by Ming times, was already perceived to be two millennia old. With fascinating details, the author brings to vivid life conflicts and resolutions in the complex hierarchy of court politics between the emperor and his ritual and music specialists. The conflicts and resolutions in their preparation and implementation of these grand ceremonies underscore the universal concerns of constancy and change, orthodoxy and individuality, timelessness, and uniqueness. This book is rich in details, broad in scope, and sharp in its theoretical focus. - Bell Yung, University of Pittsburgh This book reveals the central relationship between music and ritual in Ming China. Anyone who reads texts about Ming government is constantly confronted with statements identifying ritual and music as twin instruments of government. Nowhere in the scholarly literature is the nature of Ming music explained. Joseph S. C. Lam has now given us a guide to this important area. - Edward L. Farmer, University of Minnesota
Author Information
Joseph S. C. Lam is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan.
