Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo is the first book to address the question: How did a centuries-old, Swiss
mountain tradition make its way into American country music? Along the way, the reader …

Midway through the 1970 Georgian film Iqo shashvi mgalobeli (There Once was a Singing
Blackbird), the main character, a timpanist and would-be composer, finds himself in a …

In many countries, minorities occupy geographically isolated regions. When big states
established borders, they naturally chose geographically isolated regions, like mountain …

After the world centre of ethnomusicology shifted from Germany to the USA in the 1950s,
there was a paradigm shift in ethnomusicology. To put it very simply, comparative studies …

Three types of European folk polyphony are listed as examples of intangible cultural
heritage by UNESCO, but it is only very vaguely defined on its website, which lumps …

Объектом исследования является северокавказское вокальное многоголосие, которое
изучается на базе бурдонного компонента сольно-групповых песнопений разных …