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Journey In Diphonia - Call for participation in crowdfunding

Dear Everyone,

After "Masters of overtone singing" (2010),
Les Films du Rocher & Routes Nomades
are preparing a new movie :

Journey In Diphonia (Voyage en Diphonie in french)

For that we start a crowdfunding until the 31 of March 2017.

We need your help!

Discover the movie project on the website:

http://voyageendiphonie.com

Follow us on Facebook: https://fr-fr.facebook.com/Voyage-en-Diphonie/

Teaser on YouTube:

I am pleased to announce the publication of a special issue entirely dedicated to khöömii of the "Asian Music" journal, in which I participated:

Transregional Politics of Throat-Singing as Cultural Heritage in Inner and Central Asia, a special issue
ASIAN MUSIC, Volume 52, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2021

Charlotte D’Evelyn, Guest Editor
Robert O. Beahrs, Andrew Colwell, Associate Guest Editors
Johanni Curtet, Assistant Guest Editor

Table of Contents

• From the Editor, Ricardo D. Trimillos
• From the Guest Editors, Charlotte D'Evelyn, Robert O. Beahrs, Andrew Colwell

Grounding Heritage

• Cradle of Drone-Overtone and Timbre-Centered Music: Cultural -Landscapes of the Indigenous Peoples of the Altai Mountain Range and Its Neighboring Areas, Carole Pegg
• Propriety, Property, and Heritage in the Performance of Mongol Khöömii, Andrew Colwell
• Gifts of the Sygytchy-Sons: Tethering Melodies to Land, Kin, and Life Energy at the Khöömei Ovaa, Tyva Republic, Robert O. Beahrs

Transregional Responses

• Khöömii, World Lists, and the Question of Representation, Johanni Curtet
• Khöömii, Chooryn Duu, and Dissonant Heritage in Inner Mongolia, China, Charlotte D'Evelyn
• (Re)Claiming a Vocal Vernacular: Revival and Modernization of Kömei in Contemporary Kazakh Music, Saida Daukeyeva

Afterword

• Khöömei and Heritage: An Afterword, Theodore Levin
• Khöömei—Ambassador to the World: An Afterword, Valentina Süzükei translated by Sean Quirk

Informations, order: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/45261

Release of the record An Anthology of Mongolian Khöömii

A Buda Musique Label Double CD, 47 p. booklet (in French/English/Mongol)

Through 43 tracks, including 28 previously unreleased, this double disc gathers the essentials of Mongolian khöömii, from early sound archives to the present day, to show the history and evolution of the art over sixty years (1954- 2016) and three generations.

The Anthology continues by the end of January with many textual and audiovisual supplements (12 videos), commentaries on the tracks, musicians’ biographies, and the “Making Of” the record. See the PDF or online at www.routesnomades.fr/en/anthology.

Artistic direction and executive production: Johanni Curtet & Nomindari Shagdarsuren
contact@routesnomades.fr / www.routesnomades.fr

With the support of the French Society for Ethnomusicology and the Unit of History and Arts Criticism (EA 1279), University of Rennes 2.

Order the CD online: www.budamusique.com