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Miao Mouthorgans & Other Rare Instruments in Guizhou (vinyl LP)
Miao Mouthorgans & Other Rare Instruments in Guizhou (vinyl LP)
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A series of previously unreleased recordings of mouth organs and other rare traditional instruments from China's Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.
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.
Laurent Jeanneau
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