Claim OwnershipSelected Conference Proceedings from Naxi Conference May 14th and 15th, 2011
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Selected proceedings from a conference that marked the opening of the Rubin Museum of Art exhibition entitled Quentin Roosevelt's China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi. The exhibition explores approximately one hundred works of Naxi religious art primarily acquired by Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, and botanist-explorer Joseph Rock in the early- to mid-twentieth century, for the first time. The Naxi—one of China's fifty-five ethnic minority nationalities—traditionally practiced the Dongba religion.
Selected Proceedings on iTunesU include: Contemporary Contexts for Traditional Naxi Music and Dance on Friday May 14th-Session 1
Selected Proceedings on iTunesU include: Contemporary Contexts for Traditional Naxi Music and Dance on Friday May 14th-Session 1
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This podcast explores the role of Dongba priests of the past and the present.
Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology at UCLA. Since 1989 her research has
focused on traditional and tourist-oriented musics of southwest China, especially
those of the Naxi and Han. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in
Modern China (2000) and editor of the essay volume Lives in Chinese Music (2009).
She is also active as an interpreter, translator, and presenter for Chinese scholars
and musicians visiting the West, most recently for the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife
Festival. In spring 2008 she was a visiting professor at the Music College of the
Yunnan Art Institute.
The traditional culture of the Naxi can be recognized as an entity of its own. However, no society, past or present, stands isolated. Each has had connections with neighboring societies, exchanged goods and people with them, ideas and concepts, skills and practices. Such exchanges lead to mutual influences, to intentional or unnoticed transformations. Tracing some of these mutual influences amongst neighboring societies is the purpose of this paper.
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