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

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

By Peter K. Marsh Copyright 2009
176 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction  1. Two-Stringed Fiddle Traditions in Pre-Revolutionary Mongolian Society 2. Building a National Music Culture in Mongolia  3. Soviet Modernism and Cosmopolitan Nationalism  4. N. Jantsannorow and the Reshaping of Mongolian Musical Nationalism  5. The Folk "Revival" and the Reimagination of the Horse-head Fiddle  6. The Persistence of Alternative Music Histories 

Biography

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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