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Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond

Title
Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond / Theodore Levin with Valentina Süzükei.
Author
Levin, Theodore Craig
Publication
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
Süzükei, Valentina
Description
xxv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Folk music > Russia (Federation) > Tuva > History and criticism
  • Throat singing > Russia (Federation) > Tuva > History and criticism
  • Tuvinian (Turkic people) > Rites and ceremonies
  • Music, Influence of
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Folk music
  • Throat singing
  • Russia (Federation) > Tuva
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Web access to related audio and video files.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-268) and index.
Contents
Finding the field. Road warriors ; Kyzyl ; Reinventing Tuva -- The world is alive with the music of sound. Musical offerings ; In a cave ; Natural reverb ; interlude -- Listening the Tuvan way. Timbre-centered music ; Throat-singing -- Sound mimesis. Mimesis and the power of representation ; Hunters, the earliest sound technologists? ; Ludic mimesis ; Sound mimesis and spiritual landscape : Sound mimesis as narrative ; The mimesis of mimesis ; Mimesis as cultural memory -- Music, sound, and animals. Animal spirits ; Signaling and singing to animals ; Listening to animals ; Animals in music ; "Animal style" art and music -- An Animist view of the world. Huun-Huur-Tu at Home ; Epic dreams ; Shamans and champagne ; The spirit of Manas ; Women are not supposed to do this ; The Ondar phenomenon ; Crete --Postlude: appropriation and its discontents.
Call Number
JME 19-429
ISBN
  • 0253044715
  • 9780253044716
OCLC
1078163087
Author
Levin, Theodore Craig, author.
Title
Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond / Theodore Levin with Valentina Süzükei.
Publisher
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.
Edition
New Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [258]-268) and index.
Local Note
AUTH: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. EXAMINES MUSIC OF TUVA AND OTHER PARTS OF INNER ASIA. REPRINT OF 2010 ED.
Added Author
Süzükei, Valentina, author.
Other Editions:
Reproduction of (manifestation): Levin, Theodore Craig. Where rivers and mountains sing Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006 0253347157 (DLC) 2005022438 (OCoLC)61247166
Research Call Number
JME 19-429
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