The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

by Marsh; Peter K.

• ISBN13: 9780415971560
• ISBN10: 041597156X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in Mongolia, focusing in particular on the development of the horse-head fiddle--an instrument that encapsulates the cosmopolitan nature of the nation's contemporary national musical culture.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Two-Stringed Fiddle Traditions in Pre-Revolutionary Mongolian Society	p. 16
Building a National Music Culture	p. 47
Soviet Modernism and Cosmopolitan Nationalism	p. 73
N. Jantsannorow and the Reshaping of Mongolian Musical Nationalism	p. 100
The Folk "Revival" and the Reimagination of the Horse-head Fiddle	p. 121
The Persistence of Alternative Music Histories	p. 146
List of Interviews	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 165
Index	p. 173
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