Music

“Will the Snakes Swallow the Singers?” Traditional Music of the Hill Tribes

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289th INTG Meeting – A Talk and Presentation by John Moore This is the script of John’s talk. Each slide in John’s presentation showed either a singer, a musician with their instrument or an instrument. After talking about the subject of the slide, John then played an extract of the music of the subject of … Read more

Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders

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276th INTG Meeting – A Talk by Sara L. M. Davis “An exemplary study of cross-border culture. Davis’s original and deeply probing account of state-sponsored musical culture and of the musical practices that both transcend and subvert it deserves, like the music it depicts, to travel widely.“James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and … Read more