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Miao Mouthorgans & other rare instruments in Guizhou, Sichuan, China (LP)

Label: Sub Rosa

Format: LP

Genre: Folk

Preorder: Releases May 8th 2025

€18.90
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Tip! The term Miao is a very ancient Chinese misleading pseudo-ethnic categorisation, what we call the Hmong in western languages, a term recognised by colonial French Indochina. Miao became a generic term which does not reveal the diversity of 38 subgroups or 9 million people, mostly in Southern China Guizhou Province.

China having moved towards the market economy, a large number of minority regions have marketed a commodity available only to them: their ethnicity itself. Ethnic tourism has developed in a big way in China since the 1990s for Chinese and foreign tourists, and is often promoted as the way to create income in those areas for development. I usually stay away from ethnotouristic shows and try to get music which is not a commodity! I was based in Dali. Yunnan. China between 2006 and 2013.

Recorded By Laurent Jeanneau & Shi Tanding
Notes By Laurent Jeanneau

Details
Cat. number: SRV557
Year: 2025

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