The Nenets' Song: A Microcosm of a Vanishing Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138336636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str.

Alla Abramovich-Gomon

Opis

First published in 1999, The Nenets’ Song is the first book-length study of the epic song tradition that survives among the Nenets nation of Northern Eurasia, an area which is also the homeland of such widely known epics as the Finnish Kalevala and Yakut Olonkho.

Spis treści

1. The People of the Tundra Land. 2. Performance Practice. 3. The Structure of the Song: Poetical and Musical Texts. 4. The Historical Context of the Melodic System. 5. Some Thoughts about Song Melody.

O autorze

Alla Abramovich-Gomon