Stephen Jones's blog serves as a digital archive for his research on Chinese music,providing a valuable window to under-stand Chinese music research and a medium for the overseas dissemination of research on northern Chinese music and folk religions.Given the limited interactions between Chinese and Western folk music research,this blog plays a positive role in facilitating the Western society to understand Chinese folk music,Chinese musicologists and the research and development of northern folk reli-gions.Stephen Jones's research on Chinese music extends beyond music itself,focusing more on social changes,highlighting how individual cases of folk music(religion)construct their historical evolutions in a changing society.
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