Meetings with Chinese Music

27 March 10.30 am
Conference by stephen Jones
"Daoist ritual: funerals and temple fairs in Shanxi"
Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini Sala A

ABSTRACT
27 March, 2012
“Daoist ritual: funerals and temple fairs in Shanxi”
To accompany the Daoists’ performances, Dr Jones will first introduce folk ritual in China, and Daoist ritual in particular, and then focus on the Li household group in north Shanxi, introducing their history, their rituals, and their vocal liturgy and instrumental music, all against the background of successive modern eras of social change, again using filmed examples.

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27 March 9pm

Performance
Auditorium Santa Margherita

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Segreteria:
tel. +39 041 2710357 +39 041 5230555
e-mail musica.comparata@cini.it
In collaboration with the Department of Studies on Asia and
Mediterranean Africa, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and the Confucius
Institutes of Venice, Turin, Milan and Rome, the Intercultural Institute
of Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation has
organised a third series of meetings dedicated to Chinese music.
They consist of two lectures to be given by Professor Stephen Jones, a
leading expert on Chinese folk music, at the Palazzo Vendramin dei
Carmini and two concerts to be performed by the Li Manshan Daoist
musicians at the Giorgio Cini Foundation and at the Auditorium Santa
Margherita, Venice.