Music as intangible cultural heritage policy, ideology, and practice in the preservation of East Asian traditions / [electronic resource] : edited by Keith Howard. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 277 p.) : ill., map, music. - SOAS musicology series . - SOAS musicology series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-266) and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Maps; List of Music; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: East Asian Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage; 2 Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Today; 3 Ee, mang gay dor ga ey (Hey, Why Don't You Sing)? Imagining the Future for Kam Big Song; 4 Strumming the 'Lost Mouth Chord': Discourses of Preserving the Nuosu-Yi Mouth Harp; 5 From Transformation to Preservation: Music and Multi-Ethnic Unity on Television in China; 6 Authenticity and Authority; 7 A Tradition of Adaptation: Preserving the Ritual for Paebaengi; 8 Lessons from the Past. 9 Dichotomies between 'Classical' and 'Folk' in the Intangible Cultural Properties of Japan10 Promoting and Preserving the Chichibu Night Festival; 11 Whose Heritage? Cultural Properties Legislation and Regional Identity in Okinawa.

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Music--Social aspects--East Asia.
Cultural property--East Asia.
Historic preservation--East Asia.
Electronic books.


East Asia--Civilization.

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