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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

A fascinating and in-depth study of a little known but increasingly important culture in all of its rich diversity.
*Council on International Literatures*

This is the most comprehensive account of Mongolian music available. Carole Pegg has crafted a detailed account of the performance arts of Mongolia, focussing on the different ethnic groups who inhabit both 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.
*Asian Affairs*

An important introduction to the contemporary musical scene of Mongolia. Such a work is long overdue in ethnomusicology.
*Asian Music*

Mongolian Music, Dance, and Oral Narrative brings together for the first timea detailed account of all performance traditions in the Republic of Mongolia, from the private and domestic through the religious and public to the professional and official..It is a rich collection of ethnographic data and key work.
*Asian Folklore Studies*