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Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Hardcover)
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Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao outlines the evolution of musical
performance in early China, first within and then ultimately away
from the socio-religious context of ancestor worship. Examining
newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period,
Constance A. Cook compares the rhetoric of Western Zhou (1046-771
BCE) and Spring and Autumn (770-481 BCE) bronze inscriptions with
later occurrences of similar terms in which ritual music began to
be used as a form of self-cultivation and education. Cook's
analysis links the creation of such classics as the Book of Odes
with the ascendance of the individual practitioner, further
connecting the social actors in three types of ritual: boys coming
of age, heirs promoted into ancestral government positions, and the
philosophical stages of transcendence experienced in
self-cultivation. The focus of this study is on excavated texts; it
is the first to use both bronze and bamboo narratives to show the
evolution of a single ritual practice. By viewing the ancient
inscribed materials and the transmitted classics from this new
perspective, Cook uncovers new linkages in terms of how the
materials were shaped and reshaped over time and illuminates the
development of eulogy and song in changing ritual contexts.
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