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Summer 2015
UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music
  • UNESCO’s World of Music
    Cover Story
    UNESCO’s World of Music

    The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music is an outcome of UNESCO’s aim to bring about lasting peace founded on “mutual understanding” and “the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.”...

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  • Survival of the Fittest
    From the Field
    Survival of the Fittest

    Winter is the best time to find a singer in the Mongolian countryside, so long as you can deal with the cold…

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  • You Are What You Hear
    From the Field
    You Are What You Hear

    I'd never heard anything quite like it before, and it punctured a hole in my armor of habitual listening.…

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  • R. Lkhamjav,
    video spotlight
    “Deltei Tsenkher” A Mongolian Long Song by R. Lkhamjav

    R. Lkhamjav, sixty-six years old, sings a Khotgoid-style long song, “Deltei Tsenkher” (The Blue Dun), in Mörön, Khövsgöl province, Mongolia, in December 2013. Recorded by Sunmin Yoon.

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Credits

Published July 2015

  • Executive Editors

    Daniel Sheehy and D.A. Sonneborn

  • Guest Editor

    Joan Hua

  • Marketing

    David Horgan, Emily Hilliard, and Joan Hua

  • Proofreading

    Carla Borden

 

  • Web Producer

    Joan Hua

  • Web Designer

    Sandy Wang

  • Technical Support

    Sandy Wang and Toby Dodds

  • Video Support

    Charlie Weber and Marisol Medina-Cadena

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