Drones, Tones, and Timbres

Sounding Place among Nomads of the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes

First edition

1 online resource (407 pages); Dewey classification: 783.09573; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; 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; Publication place: Urbana, Illinois; Sensuous Scholarship -- Ritual Performances -- 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; 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 -- Khakassia -- 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 -- Tyva -- 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