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

Author/creator Levin, Theodore Craig
Other author Su̇zu̇keĭ, Valentina
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxxv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD/DVD 4 3/4 in.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Local noteJoyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER CD-6481.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [258]-268) and index.
LCCN 2005022438
ISBN0253347157 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253347152

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