Ritual and music of North China: shawm bands in Shanxi/ Stephen Jones.

Part One: Lives of shawm band musicians
1. 1 Musics of Shanxi province; 2 Musics of Yanggao county; 3 Shawm bands in China;
4 Yinyang and gujiang traditions in north Yanggao
2. 1 The Hua band; 2 The Hua brothers; 3 Other gujiang; 4 A comparison; 5 The Cultural Revolution; 6 The reform era
3. 1 Following fashion; 2 Local goes national?; 3 Yanggao pop
4. 1 Sexism; 2 The learning process; 3 Tiantian; 4 Fees and ¿black talk¿; 5 The current scene
5. 1 Scholarship; 2 Our visits and the role of cultural officials; 3 Washington 2002; 4 UK and Holland 2005
6 Conclusion: lives and livelihood

Part Two: Shawm bands and Daoists in performance: funerals and temple fairs
7 Introduction
8. 1 Funerals; 2 The first day; 3 Inviting Relatives and Burning the Treasuries; 4 Transferring Offerings; 5 The Burial Procession
9. 1 Temple fairs; 2 Xujiayuan; 3 Gushan; 4 Lower Liangyuan
10 Conclusion: ritual and musical impoverishment

Part Three: Don't mean a thing if it ain¿t got that swing
11. 1 Instrumentation; 2 Instruments and makers
12. 1 Pitch, scales, and gongche; 2 Learning heterophony and idiom; 3 Melodic styles; Ostinato sections and cadences; 4 Metre and percussion patterns; 5 Repetition and variability
13. 1 Repertories; 2 Processional pieces; 3 The eight great suites; Shang qiaolou; Jiangjun ling; Shuilongyin; Baiheyan and Da Yanluo; The three missing suites; 4 Vocal-derived ¿small pieces¿
14 Conclusion: ritual sound