Theodore Levin is Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and author of The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (IUP, 1997).Valentina Süzükei is Senior Academic Officer of the Tuvan Institute for Humanities Research in Kyzyl, Tuva. She is author of three books on Tuvan music, including The Musical Culture of Tuva in the Twentieth Century (in Russian).

This is a perceptive book and a comfortable read. . . . [Levin] beautifully presents his central ideas regarding the spiritual and ecological music making in Inner Asia with enchanting and captivating storytelling. . . . A welcome addition to reading this text is the accompanying CD/DVD, which includes musical examples illustrating the stories and further draws readers into the telling of his story. These audiovisual examples not only function to help in understanding the book itself but are useful for class teaching on Inner Asian music.(Asian Music) Always readable, with issues and ideas presented in an immediate style, rich in personal vignettes and ethnographic detail, and brought to life by the fabulous audio/visual supplement material that is available on-line, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing is a gift for teachers and students.(Ethnomusicology) This is a complex, informationally-dense book that fits well into recent trends toward aural phenomena.- Nina Fales

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOn Language and Pronunciation Dramatis Personae1. Finding the FieldRoad WarriorsKyzylReinventing Tuva2. The World Is Alive with the Music of SoundMusical OfferingsIn a CaveNatural ReverbInterlude3. Listening the Tuvan WayTimbre-Centered MusicThroat-Singing: The Ideal Timbral Art4. Sound MimesisMimesis and the Power of RepresentationHunters: The Earliest Sound Technologists?Ludic MimesisSound Mimesis and Spiritual LandscapeSound Mimesis as NarrativeThe Mimesis of MimesisMimesis as Cultural Memory5. Music, Sound, and AnimalsAnimal SpiritsSignaling and Singing to AnimalsListening to AnimalsAnimals in Music"Animal Style" Art and Music6. An Animist View of the WorldHuun-Huur-Tu at HomeEpic DreamsShamans and ChampagneThe Spirit of ManasWomen Are Not Supposed to Do ThisThe Ondar PhenomenonCretePostlude: Appropriation and Its DiscontentsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndexKey to Selections on Compact DiscKey to Selections on DVD