Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond
- Author: Levin, Theodore
Always readable, with issues and ideas presented in an immediate style, rich in personal vignettes and ethnographic detail, and brought to life by the fabulous audio/visual supplement material... — More…
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$36.75Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- On Language and Pronunciation
- Dramatis Personae
- 1. Finding the Field
- Road Warriors
- Kyzyl
- Reinventing Tuva
- 2. The World Is Alive with the Music of Sound
- Musical Offerings
- In a Cave
- Natural Reverb
- Interlude
- 3. Listening the Tuvan Way
- Timbre-Centered Music
- Throat-Singing: The Ideal Timbral Art
- 4. 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
- 5. Music, Sound, and Animals
- Animal Spirits
- Signaling and Singing to Animals
- Listening to Animals
- Animals in Music
- "Animal Style" Art and Music
- 6. 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
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Key to Selections on Compact Disc
- Key to Selections on DVD
