The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia
Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in the country, focusing in particular on development of the morin khuur or &quote;horse-head fiddle,&quote; a two-stringed bowed folk lute that features a horse's head carved into it…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-135-87487-2
- EAN: 9781135874872
- Produktnummer: 14833210
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'504 KB
- Abbildungen: 19 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Peter K. Marsh is Assistant Professor of Music at California State University, East Bay. He has written extensively on issues related to musical tradition and modernity in Mongolia, including Global Hip-Hop and Youth Cultural Politics in Urban Mongolia, in Mongolian Culture and Society in the Age of Globalization, edited by Henry G. Schwarz (Bellingham: Western Washington University Press, 2006).
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