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Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond / Theodore Levin with Valentina Süzükei.

By: Levin, Theodore Craig.
Contributor(s): Süzükei, Valentina.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006Description: xxv, 281 p., 16 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm + 1 DualDisc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).ISBN: 0253347157 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): 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 | EthnomusicologyDDC classification: 781.62/94330575 Online resources: Table of contents
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index.

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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