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The Alphabetical Order of ThingsThe Language of Place and the Place of Language in Tibetan Song
Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in and From East Asia
Sydney Conservatorium of MusicMarch 29-30, 2016
Gerald RocheUniversity of [email protected]
Tibet: An Empire in Song?• Tibet is linguistically diverse!
Map showing the number of minority languages per county in Tibetan areas of China. Roche 2014.
Tibet: An Empire in Song?
• Tibet is linguistically diverse!• So what holds it together? – Pilgrimage? – Diglossia in song?
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVmDoXrqs0]
The Mandalic Order
• Mandala*• Mandala in song
• Sheep song• Minyak wedding• Oirat New Year
The Alphabetical Order
• From mandala to nation• Nation and language
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BQzs08iJs&feature=youtu.be]
The Alphabetical Order
• People and language• Valorization
• Declaration/ Exhortation• Threat
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uDbzqRWc8w]
SummaryMandalic Order Alphabetical Order
Banal cosmopolitanism Banal nationalism
Ideology of variation Ideology of standardization
Diversity Assimilation
References• Morcom, A. 2015. Landscape, Urbanization and Capitalist
Modernity: Exploring the ‘Great Transformation’ of Tibet Through its Songs. Yearbook for Traditional Music 47: 161-189.
• Ramble, C. 2002. The Victory Song of Porong. In Katia Buffetrille and Hildegard Diemberger (eds) Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas. Leiden: Brill, 59-84.
• Roche, G. forthcoming. Tibet and Tibetans. SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. [via Academia.edu]
• Roche, G. 2014. Flows and Frontiers: Landscape and Cultural Dynamics on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15.1:1-25.