Where Rivers And Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, And Nomadism in Tuva And Beyond

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 281 pages
• Published by: Indiana University Press; Har/Com/Dv edition March 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0253347157
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0253347152
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Dirty Linen, Michael Parrish
Leavin weaves personal narrative with interviews documenting how Tuvan music has changed music and musicians in Europe and America."

Simon Broughton, editor, Songlines and Rough Guide to World Music
"[an] immensely readable and thought-provoking book"

Reader Reviews
The ethnographer author of The Hundred Thousand Fools of God, who took us on a musical journey to Uzbekistan, truly enters new sonic territory with this account of traditional and developing Tuvan musical arts, including his fostering (as executive producer) of the group Huun-Huur-Tu. More than associating the various forms of throat singing with ambient environmental sounds, Tuvan music is based on timbre, not pitch, on relative intervals, not absolutes. Such a radical alteration of musical perspective requires new ways of listening, and here Levin helps us with a most interesting and well-written book and CD and, on the flip side of the disk, DVD. Instead of a deadly tedious textbook with some artificial, meaningless taxonomy and pages of scores, we are presented with a fascinating, lucid exploration that made me re-listen to my collection of Tuvan and Manchurian music with more appreciation and understanding. This book expanded my mind. Comment | | (Report this)