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Singing the village : music, memory, and ritual among the Sibe of Xinjiang

This is a readable account of the musical and ritual life of the Sibe people, who have lived in the remote, desert region of Chinese Central Asia since the eighteenth century
Print Book, English, ©2004
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2004
CD
xx, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
9780197262979, 019726297X
56539097
1. Sibe history and society
2. Sibe music
3. Memories of music, memories through music
4. Remembering the rituals : shamans, temples and ancestors
5. Folk music and the modern state