This is the companion site to Mongolian Sound Worlds (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2022)
Available at the Univ. of Illinois Press or your favorite book seller.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Music cultures today in rural and urban Mongolia and Inner Mongolia emerge from centuries-old pastoralist practices that were reshaped by political movements in the twentieth century. Mongolian Sound Worlds investigates the unique sonic elements, fluid genres, social and spatial performativity, and sounding objects behind new forms of Mongolian music–forms that reflect the nation’s past while looking towards its globalized future. Drawing on fieldwork in locations across the Inner Asian region, the contributors report on Mongolia’s genres and musical landscapes; instruments like the morin khuur, tovshuur, and Kazakh dombyra; combined fusion band culture; and urban popular music. Their broad range of concerns include nomadic herders’ music and instrument building, ethnic boundaries, heritage-making, ideological influences, nationalism, and global circulation.

A merger of expert scholarship and eyewitness experience, Mongolian Sound Worlds illuminates a diverse and ever-changing musical culture.

Contributors include Bayarsaikhan Badamsuren, Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar, Andrew Colwell, Johanni Curtet, Charlotte D’Evelyn, Tamir Hargana, Peter K. Marsh, K. Oktyabr, Rebekah Plueckhahn, Jennifer C. Post, Tserendavaa Dashdorj, and Sunmin Yoon

The table of contents of ​Mongolian Sound Worlds is available here.

ABOUT THIS SITE:
This companion site is populated with links to web-based video sources, supplementary images and color versions of some of the photographs in the volume, selected audio and video clips, and other data that will help you explore the musical cultures and practices discussed in the volume.

We view this website as an information source that not only supports the articles in our volume but provides additional information on Mongolian music and musical events, organizations, and projects that may be of interest to the reader.

​As new research emerges we will direct users to additional web sources, news stories, podcasts, audio and video recordings, and provide citations for some of the latest literature on Mongolian sound worlds.