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SUMMARY:Throat-Singing: Body\, Spirit\, Pathways\, Place - Dr Carole Pegg\
 , University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\n"Throat-singing” is timbre-centred vocal music t
 ypified by the simultaneous separate sounding of a musical drone and its o
 vertones or undertones by a solo vocalist. Here I also include the timbral
  vocal technique of heroic epic performers. Often perceived as otherworldl
 y\, these vocal sounds have entranced global listeners and inspired many t
 o attempt the technically difficult styles and substyles. My extensive fie
 ldwork among Indigenous nomadic peoples of Inner Asia\, the cradle of this
  genre\, revealed how these sounds “place” the bodies of performers an
 d listeners in the local acoustic landscape and mountain-steppe ecology\, 
 enable nomadizing along cross-border pathways in an animist tripartite uni
 verse\, and create kinship relations with living and ancestral humans and 
 spirits.  Tyvan “throat-singer” Radik Tülüsh’s suggestion that the
 se connections form a “philosophy”\, inspired my theory of “ontologi
 cal musicality\,” that is\, an inter-relational musical complex that con
 nects Inner Asian nomadic identities\, ways of being\, spirituality\, pers
 onhood\, community\, and senses of place. Finally\, I ask: can Inner Asian
  “throat-singing” as an ontological musicality\, with its respect for 
 the environment and mediation of the potentially opposing notions of movem
 ent and place\, be of equal relevance to its technical accomplishment in o
 ur own “ways of being” in the world? \n\nBiography\n\nDr Carole Pegg i
 s an affiliated Senior Researcher in the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Uni
 t\, University of Cambridge\, and alumna of Lucy Cavendish College. After 
 gaining her degree and PhD in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University\
 , she undertook postdoctoral research on the music of nomadic peoples of I
 nner Asia (Mongolia\, Inner Mongolia\, southern Siberian republics of Alta
 i\, Khakhassia and Tyva). Two ethnographies ensued: Mongolian Music\, Danc
 e and Oral Narrative: Performing Diverse Identities (Washington University
  Press\, 2001) and Drones\, Tones & Timbres: Sounding Place among Nomads o
 f the Inner Asian Mountain-Steppes (Illinois University Press\, 2024). She
  has served as Chairperson of the British Forum of Ethnomusicology\, found
 ing co-editor of the British Journal of Ethnomusicology (now Ethnomusicolo
 gy Forum)\, Senior Editor of traditional world music for the New Grove Dic
 tionary of Music & Musicians (second edition)\, and editorial board member
  of the journal Cambridge Anthropology. As an English singer-fiddler\, she
  has recorded as a solo artist\, with the folk-rock band Mr Fox\, and with
  throat-singer Radik Tülüsh (of the Tyvan band Huun-Huur-Tu). As directo
 r of Inner Asian Music and 7-Star Records\, she has toured musicians from 
 her fieldwork areas and produced compact discs of their music.\n\n\n
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgwick Avenue
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