- Paperback: 380 pages
- Publisher: University of Washington Press (January 1, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0295981121
- ISBN-13: 978-0295981123
This book celebrates the power of music, dance, and oral narrative to
create identities by imaginatively connecting performers and audiences
with ethnic and political groupings, global and sacred landscapes,
histories and heroes, spirits and gods.Three distinct cultural eras
of Mongolian society are represented. Many Mongols are now performing
publicly the diverse traditions of Old Mongolia that they practiced in
private following the communist revolution of 1921; some are
perpetuating the Soviet transformations of those traditions introduced
prior to 1990; and yet others are dipping their curly-toed boots into
new performance arts as they
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