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4 juillet 2018
- handle: 10670/1.9wdlrq
- isbn: 9781783743834
- eisbn: 9791036509667
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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China’s ethnic minorities Mongghul oral literature multilingualism narrative songs precolonial multilingualism Tibet Literature Cultural studies LIT008000 DSBSujets proches
Lieder Solo songs Arias Art songs Ariettas Songs with various acc Solo vocal music, Secular Polyglottism PlurilingualismCiter ce document
Gerald Roche, « Introduction », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.9wdlrq
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The present work contains a selection of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau, in western China. In this introduction, I examine how this collection of texts, and an understanding of their traditional social context, provides insights into the practices of multilingualism that supported linguistic diversity in Tibet (Roche 2014, 2017; Roche and Suzuki 2017). In particular, I feel that these songs may provide fresh insight into the ways in...