Zastiin Nogoodoi: Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia

Abstract

Zastiin Nogoodoi: Tribal Zakhchin Music of Western Mongolia is the third CD to beproduced as part of a music preservation project, researched, performed andproduced by Zakhchin vocalist Otgonbayar Chuluunbaatar. This CD, and the widermusical project of which it is a part, is indicative of the postcommunist cultural andmusical revival occurring among ethnic groups in western Mongolia. It is good to seesuch a CD being released that can inform the wider musical and scholarly communityof these cultural heritage efforts.