Drones, Tones, and Timbres : Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes / Carole Pegg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pegg, Carole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Altaic peoples--Russia (Federation)--Altaĭ (Republic)--Music--History and criticism.

Altaic peoples.

Altaic peoples--Russia (Federation)--Altaĭ (Republic)--Rites and ceremonies.

Throat singing--Russia (Federation)--Altaĭ (Republic)--History and criticism.

Throat singing.

Shamanism--Russia (Federation)--Altaĭ (Republic).

Shamanism.

Music--Social aspects--Russia (Federation)--Altaĭ (Republic).

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Languages, Transliteration, Translation

Companion Website

Part One: Emplacement, Ontologies, Bodies

Introduction

Background

Altai-Sayan and Greater Altai Mountain-Steppes

The Shamanic Animist Universe

Journeying in Horizontal Middle Worlds

Sonic Pathways in Vertical Landscapes

The Creative Shaman

Republics, Indigenous Peoples

Mountain Altai (Gorny Altai)

Khakassia

Tyva

State and Global Flows

Unesco, The Russian State, Nomads, World Music

Shamanic Renaissance and Harner's Global Core

Structure of the Book

Performance Arena

Ontological Musicality and Sonicality

1. Performative Bodies

Social

Sonically Embodied Self-Drone

Relations of Personhood

Multisensory, Extrasensory

Prioritization and Entwinement of Common Senses

Sounding and Sensing Spirits

Multisouled

In-Place Living Souls

Out-of-Place Living Souls

Dispatching A Posthumous Soul

Instrumental

Throat-Singing as Body-Music

Tuning the Body

Jaw's Harp, Open End-Blown Flute

Musical Instrument as Living Body

Traditional

Gendered

Respectful

With-Spirit

The Gift

Shamanic Suprabody

Landscaped

Resonating the Tripartite Universe

Living Rocks and Stones

Ancestral, Archaeological

Indigenous

Part Two: Sounding Middle Worlds

2. Human Communities

Agents of Ethnicity and Indigeneity: Epics, Tales, Poetry, Oral Histories

Yenisei Kyrgyz (Turkic) Khanate

Mongolian Empire

Jungar (Oirot) Khanate

Lineages, Kinship, Land

Praise-Songs and Blessings in the Singing Forest

Musicking Past Kin

Pilgrimage: Big Shamans, Little Shamans

Bonding, Coloring, and Re-Placing A Tyvan Family

Local and Social Place

Improvised Verses and Melodies

Ritual Laments.

The Festive Nation's Musical Soul

Altaian El-Oiyn, Chaga Bairam, Altyn Taiga

Khakas Chyl-Pazy, Tun Pairam

Tyvan Naadym

Global Presence and Place: Shamans, Musicians, Indigenous Peoples

3. Spirit Actors, Spirit Places, Nomadic Landscapes

Nature's Spirit-Owners

Respecting and Serenading

Charming for Hunting and Animal Husbandry

Musicality

Duetting in the Ancestral Land

Silence in A Sacred Place of Khai

Mountain People

Hearing and Seeing Ancestors

Music, Instruments, Receiving the Gift

Ancestral Spirit-Roads

Shamanic Spirits

Mountain Shamaness with Virtual Drum

Tyvan Eeren

Spirits of Illness

Buddhist Accommodations and Contestations

Rituals, Music, Spirit-Protectors, and Land

Angering Local Spirit-Owners

Boundaries, Emplacement, Movement

Territorial Markers: Ritual Cairn, Hitching Post

Otherworld Boundaries: Portals, Pathways

Powerful Places, Boundaries, Verticality, and Laterality

4. Ancestors and Archaeology

Altai

Pazyryk Heroes, Harp, and Drums

Ice Maiden: Spirit-Protector, Epic Heroine, Musical Icon

Black Hand Ancestors, Energetical Locks, Bashadar Heroes, and Altaian Harp

Sunduki: Epic Narrative as Rock Art

The War Stones of Uibat Steppe

Boundary Between Worlds: Silence at a Tagar Megalith Site

Conveyors of Sound And Place: Rock Art and Musical Instruments

A Multisensory Shamanic Ritual

Arzhan Burials, Jaw's Harp, Stone Figures, Rock Art

ÜSTüü Khüree Temple and Festival

Part Three: Attuning to Upper and Lower Worlds

5. The White Way

Beginnings, Re-Creating, Unsounding

Domestic Rituals

Enlivening Spirit-Interceders

Offering to the Fire, Respecting the Hearth

Protecting the Home

Clan Rituals: Altai's Ear

Preparations and Purifications

Ritual Participants.

Kulada: Performing Kaleidoscopic Connections

Bowing, Blessings, and Place

Ritual and Jangar Songs

Lower Talda: Improvising Traditions

Preparations

Ritual Actions

Bowing, Blessing-Fortune, and Place

Spirit-Interceders

Epic Motifs, Throat-Singing, Topshuur Lute

Postritual Celebrations

Multisensory and Extrasensory Experiences

6. With-Spirit Epic Performers

Lineages

Altai: Telengit, Altai-Kizhi, Töölös Tuba

Khakassia: Khyzyl, Khaas, Saghai

Tyva: Clans, Schools

Kai-Khai Person

Extending Sensibilities, Crossing Boundaries

Initiation, Performative Gifts, Codes of Performance Practice

Ritual Performances

Local Activities: Hunting, Escorting the Soul

A Traditional-Global Encounter: Elbek Kalkin

Epic Performance as Boundary Transition

Protection, Healing

The Skillful Epic Performer

Sounds, Ethnopoetics, Paralinguistics

Musical Epic Hero and Epic World

7. Shamanic Roads

Pathways of Origin

Sources of Shamanhood and Power

Clan, Ancestral Road, Initiation

Throat-Singing, Place, Power

Vocalizing Spirits and Journey

Song-Chants, Melodies, Interjections, Exclamations

Spirit Embodiment and Mimesis

Throat-Singing, Whistling, Yawning, Coughing

Sonic Modes of Travel

Drum: Spirit-Helpers, Percussive Sounds

Beater: Metamorphosis, Healing

Jaw's Harp: Power, Strength

Staff, Fan

Mirror: Celestial Origin, Drum Substitute

Costume: Activator of Pathways

An Altaian Shaman's Healing Rituals

Creating, Opening, Unblocking the Road

Enlivenment, Invitation, Ancestral Clan Hero

Placing Clients: Clan, World, Universe

Case Studies: Terminal Illness, Distress, Infertility

Vibrating, Spinning, Seeing, Journeying

Patient Actions

Coda

Sounds and Silence

Performance and Performativity

Sensory, Multisensory, Extrasensory.

Sensuous Scholarship

Gatherings of Activation

Transitions and Transformations

Nomadic Movement and Belonging

Indigeneity

Land Rights

Musical Icons

Sounding Place

Multiphonies

The Past in the Present

From "Out-of-Place" to "In-Place"

Holism

State, National, and Global Pathways: Flows and Dissonances

Are Altai-Sayan Shamans "Neoshamans?"

Is Buddhism Indigenous?

Who Owns Cultural Heritage?

Appendix

Participants

Notes

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pegg, Carole Drones, Tones, and Timbres

ISBN:

9780252055072

0252055071