ENGLISHTIBETANCHINESE

ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES Volume 12: Silence in the Valley of Songs

By Zla ba grol ma

Book information

Publisher
Asian Highland Perspectives
Year
2012
ISSN
1
LCC
2008944256
Language
englishtibetanchinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28303115 bytes)
Volume
12
Pages
247\247
Time added
2013-06-30 09:09:10

Description

The text and more than one hundred full-page color plates document Tibetan folk music (particularly work songs), and local life in the Sman shod Valley, Sde dge County, Dkar mdzes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Bo nyed, a local elder, describes what motivated this timely documentation, "In the past we sang constantly, but now people don't sing no matter where they are or what they are doing. Now everyone is silent." The text includes richly contextualized and annotated transcriptions of the songs' Tibetan lyrics with English translations. Audio materials related to this publication may be found athttp://www.oralliterature.org/collections/zlaba001.html

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