Where rivers and mountains sing : sound, music, and nomadism in Tuva and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Levin, Theodore Craig
Other Authors:	Süzükei, Valentina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]
Subjects:	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. Ethnomusicology.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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 ; 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.