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Title:
Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond
Author:
Levin, Theodore Craig.
ISBN:
9780253347152
Publication Information:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
xxv, 281 s. : res. ; 24 cm + 1 DualDisc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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 ; [APTER]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.
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