1st Edition
The Nenets' Song A Microcosm of a Vanishing Culture
By Alla Abramovich-Gomon
Copyright 1999
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1999, The Nenets’ Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Northern Eurasia, an area which is also the homeland of such widely known epics as the Finnish Kalevala and Yakut Olonkho . The book considers the Nenets’ song tradition within its historical, cultural, social and political contexts, and focuses on its... Read more
1. The People of the Tundra Land. 2. Performance Practice. 3. The Structure of the Song: Poetical and Musical Texts. 4. The Historical Context of the Melodic System. 5. Some Thoughts about Song Melody.
Biography
Alla Abramovich-Gomon
