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A fascinating study of music, dance, and oral narrative in Mongolia

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsNotes on Transliteration, Transcription, and AbbreviationsMusical Examples on CD1. PerformancesPart I. Performing Ethnicity, History and Place2. Connections3. Vocal Repertories4. Instruments and DancesPart II. Embodying Spiritual Landscapes5. Folk-Religious Practices6. Shamanizing7. Buddhist Performance TraditionsPart III. Creating Sociality, Time, and Space8. Domestic Celebrations9. Sport and Play10. Herding and HuntingPart IV. Transforming Political Identities11. A Socialist National Identity12. Disjunctures and Diversities13. PostscriptNotesGlossaryInterviewsBibliographySelected DiscographySelected FilmographyIndex

Reviews

"Dr. Pegg has made full use of what is truly a unique opportunity, by recording performances, interviewing 'practitioners' including even shamanesses (who were thought to have vanished from socialist society) and presenting the recovery of tradition against her analysis of the previous regime's attempts to repudiate its existence." - Charles Bawden, Emeritus Professor of Mongolian, University of London "This is the most comprehensive account of Mongolian music available. Carole Pegg has crafted a detailed account of the peformance arts of Mongolia, focussing on the different ethnic groups who inhabit the state proper and its bordering areas in China and Siberia. It is an ethnography in the old tradition, broad-ranging and all-encompassing. It is also based on an exhaustive bibliography of Mongolian, Russian, and European sources... She has spent the last fifteen years researching this book, a period which involved five fieldtrips... We must be sensitive when we listen to the Mongols, and to their ever-fascinating and multi-faceted performance arts--like Pegg has done."--ASIAN AFFAIRS, June 2002