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 [...]

In the past, Tibetan Buddhism was a major social force in Tibetan society, and so it is not surprising to note that religious songs emerged as a song genre.Such songs were sung mostly by men, though women were not prevented from singing them. This genre was popularly sung at the beginning and the end [...]

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Ring sned Village is in Nyag rong County, Dkar mdzes Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The villagers speak a unique language, called Minyak, spoken by only 10,000 people in Dkar mdzes Prefecture. Nyag [...]

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