Dear colleagues!A special issue of "The New Research
of Tuva” #2 of 2017 will be released in June. It will be dedicated to
"Contemporary studies of the Tuvan music”. Doctor of Culturology V. Yu. Suzukey
(Tuvan Institute for the Humanities and Applied Social and Economic Studies)
will guest edit the issue.
During the last decades, Tuvan music
revealed itself to the World Music and cemented positions in world performer
practices. It also attracts huge interest as an object for scientific studies.
Researcher should feel no lack of thesis and studies both of Russian and
foreign scientists devoted to the Tuvan music. Nonetheless, scientific study of
musical art of Tuvans is still in initial stage. Many aspects of this unique
people’s phonation techniques are still understudied. Consequently, new studies
performed at different positions and aspects always attract a strong interest.
Proposed list of topics for the issue:
·
Musical
culture of Tuva as an object for scientific studies;· Genre diversity of contemporary Tuvan music;
· Tuvan khoomei and its impact on world musical culture;
· Centers for khoomei studies in different countries;
· Tone characteristics of Tuvan music;
· World-known stars of Tuvan music vault;
·
World
music and Tuvan music.
Each article should not exceed 30,000
characters (incl. spaces) in Russian or English. The submission deadline is March
1, 2017.
Beside the indicated topic we
continue accepting articles on topical
priorities of the journal, including sections "Scientific life”, "We read, we
cogitate (abstracts and reviews)”.
