Silence in the Valley of Songs: Work Songs from Sman shod Valley
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Zla ba sgrol ma
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 the situation that 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.
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Silence in the Valley of Songs: Work Songs from Sman shod Valley
Keywords
Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, History, Working song, Folk song, Khams Tibetan, Tibetan, Sman shad
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Asian Highlands Perspectives
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