01315nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001500043245012900058856015800187300001000345490000700355520078700362022002001149                                       d1 aHelen Rees00aEnvironmental Crisis, Culture Loss, and a New Musical Aesthetic: China s "Original Ecology Folksongs" In Theory and Practice  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85017690876&doi=10.5406%2fethnomusicology.60.1.0053&partnerID=40&md5=b1957db146c677f9227add9b44beb559  a53-880 v603 aSince the early twenty-first century, a craze for "original ecology folksongs" has overtaken China. Performed by village-born singers in local dialect and obviously traditional style, these songs and the related discourse stress ties to place, cultural authenticity, and the interrelationship of physical environment with human culture. Their aesthetic stands in stark contrast to the twentieth-century preference for European-inspired modernization and standardization of Chinese traditional music. Reflecting widespread Chinese angst over rapid culture loss and major environmental degradation, this song phenomenon and the discussion it provokes resonate productively with Western scholarship in musical sustainability, intangible cultural heritage protection, and ecomusicology.  a00141836 (ISSN)