Announcement Type
Online Digital Resources
Subject Fields
Anthropology,
Asian History / Studies,
Chinese History / Studies,
Cultural History / Studies,
Music and Music History
Dear All,
Asian Highlands Perspectives is pleased to announce Volume 39 entitled BEING ANYTHING AND GOING ANYWHERE: AN A MDO TIBETAN AUTO-SONG-OGRAPHY by Sangs rgyas bkra shis སངས་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས།, Qi Huimin 祁慧民, and CK Stuart. AHP 39 may be downloaded for free at:
- http://tinyurl.com/j8mucpy
Inexpensive, at-cost paper copies are available at
- hardcover (12.81USD): http://tinyurl.com/jzld2zq
- paperback (3.26USD): http://tinyurl.com/gnxx6x8
CONTENTS དུས་ནམ་ཡང་བྱམས་པ་དང་བརྩེ་བས་བསྐྱངས་པའི་དྲིན་ཆེན་གྱི་ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཞུ།3Acknowledgements4Contents5Map. Gcan tsha (Jianzha) County, Mtsho sngon Province6Foreword7 PART ONE: LIFE WITH SONG13 Introduction14 Songs19 Dmangs glu19 Glu shags20 La gzhas21 Visiting My Maternal Grandparents32 Weddings36 Power Transformations47 A Dmangs glu Singing Competition49 Informal Gatherings at My Home51 Changing Song Practices and Preferences55PART TWO: MUSIC AND TEXTS60 Introduction61 Dmangs glu62 Glu shags62 La gzhas62 Rdung len63 Conclusion132PART THREE: PHOTOGRAPHS134 1 and 2. A wedding ceremony in Rkang mo Community in Gcan tsha thang Township.135 3. The sixth lunar month horse race.137 4. My family on the autumn pasture.138 5 and 6. A birthday party for a three year old boy.139 7. Singing to commend families maintaining community traditions - the black yak hair tent.141 8, 9, 10, and 11. Singing at a wedding.142 References144Non-English Terms147Index 154
Videos of all twenty-six songs performed by
Sang rgyas bkra shis that are included in this book are available at http://tinyurl.com/onqydt5
Sang rgyas bkra shis' BEING ANYTHING AND GOING ANYWHERE is a rich, vivid, and immensely informative account of songs and singing in Amdo. Written from personal experience but with a rigorous coverage and excellent illustration of music, texts, and contexts, this book is the next best thing to actually visiting Gcan tsha County. A beautiful and invaluable resource. ---Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, University of London All AHP volumes may be downloaded for free at
- http://tinyurl.com/hxamtjk
- http://tinyurl.com/7tdjtl2