Helen Rees is a professor of ethnomusicology and the director of the World Music Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China.
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Foreword Xiao Mei Introduction Helen Rees Part I. Instrument Categories The Aesthetics of Koto Strings: Materiality and Physical Sensation in Performance Terauchi Naoko The Calapita Past the "Dull Edge" of Extinction: A Shaggy Dog Story of Repatriation and Refusal in Bali Tyler Yamin Part II. Individual Instruments Pines in Ten Thousand Valleys: The Life Journey of a Musical Instrument (b.1640) Bell Yung Making and Growing End-blown Flutes in the Mongolian Steppes Jennifer C. Post Part III. Instrument Collections Stories of Musicians, Curators, and "Bamboo Sticks": The Making of a Musical Instrument Exhibition in Laos Maire-Pierre Lissoir Family Heirlooms as Social Objects: The Thai Musical Instruments at UCLA Supeena Insee Adler Asian Instruments and the Founding of the UCLA Collection Helen Rees Contributors Index
"Well designed and meticulously edited, this is a strikingly original contribution to the field of ethnomusicology. All the chapters have much to offer anyone interested in playing, learning, documenting, or thinking about musical instruments anywhere in the world."--J. Lawrence Witzleben, author of Silk and Bamboo Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition