The Plateau Music Project

Shibao Village is in Zongke Township, Rangtang County Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The songs in this collection represent only a small part of the song repertoire in Shibao Village. This repertoire includes: fables, praise songs, milking songs, dreaming songs (songs about dreams, which Tibetans regard as prophetic signs), history songs (songs [...]

Stories About Our Project
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070629-tibet-music.html
http://www.thatsbj.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/15/musicology_temp_help_for_tibet
Online Collections
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/music/yariaso/
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/music/thargyas/
Our Youtube Channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/TibetanMusicProject
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Below is a paper in PDF format introducing the Plateau Music Project. There are both English and Chinese versions. The paper outlines our projects history, methods, and achievements. It was written with the hope of inspiring dialog on grass-roots cultural preservation techniques in China and elsewhere.
 

Plateau Music Project (English)
Plateau Music Project (Chinese)

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The Tibetan Endangered Music Project was founded in order to preserve endangered songs on the Tibetan Plateau. Most of this music will disappear in the next decade. Our members, all local volunteers from the English Training Program at Qinghai Normal University, Qinghai Province, PR China, have since 2005 recorded more than five hundred Tibetan traditional [...]