Drones, Tones, and Timbres
Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes
Seiten
2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04545-5 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04545-5 (ISBN)
An indispensable study of the music of Altai-Sayan peoples
Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg’s long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world. Inspired by the mountain-steppe ecology and pathways of nomadism, soundscapes created in performative ritual events cross political and multiple-world boundaries in a shamanic-animist universe, enabling human and spirit actor interactions in a series of sensuous worlds. As with the “throat-singing” for which Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples are famous, senses of place involve sonic relations, rootedness, movement, and plurality. Pegg echoes their drone-partials musical and ontological models in an innovative theoretical entwinement. Three strands form the book’s multivocal drone, the partials of which sound in each chapter: ontological sonicality and musicality that enables emplacement and movement; the importance of shamanism-animism--at the core of Indigenous spiritual practices--for personhood and community; and the agency of sonic performances. Sounding place, Pegg demonstrates, is essential to the identities, ways of life, and very senses of being of Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples.
Based on more than twenty years of collaborative research, Carole Pegg’s long-awaited participatory ethnography explores how Indigenous nomadic peoples of Russia’s southern Siberian republics (Altai, Khakassia, Tyva) sound multiphonies of place in a post-Soviet global world. Inspired by the mountain-steppe ecology and pathways of nomadism, soundscapes created in performative ritual events cross political and multiple-world boundaries in a shamanic-animist universe, enabling human and spirit actor interactions in a series of sensuous worlds. As with the “throat-singing” for which Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples are famous, senses of place involve sonic relations, rootedness, movement, and plurality. Pegg echoes their drone-partials musical and ontological models in an innovative theoretical entwinement. Three strands form the book’s multivocal drone, the partials of which sound in each chapter: ontological sonicality and musicality that enables emplacement and movement; the importance of shamanism-animism--at the core of Indigenous spiritual practices--for personhood and community; and the agency of sonic performances. Sounding place, Pegg demonstrates, is essential to the identities, ways of life, and very senses of being of Indigenous Altai-Sayan peoples.
Carole Pegg is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and senior researcher at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Mongolian Music, Dance and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities.
Acknowledgments Languages, Transliteration, Translation
Companion Website
Part One: Emplacement, Ontologies, Bodies
Introduction
1. Performative Bodies
Part Two: Sounding Middle Worlds
2. Human Communities
3. Spirit Actors, Spirit Places, Nomadic Landscapes
4. Ancestors and Archaeology
Part Three: Attuning to Upper and Lower Worlds
5. The White Way
6. With-Spirit Epic Performer
7. Shamanic Roads
Coda
Appendix
Participants
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black & white photographs, 1 chart, 4 tables |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 653 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-04545-9 / 0252045459 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-04545-5 / 9780252045455 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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