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Fight fire with fire
Photo: R. Ragu
Capture the tune: For future generations.
In the remote plateaus of Tibet, recording artists have been hard at work laying down tracks of love ballads, drinking tunes, and songs meant to soothe the savage beast. That’s because students at Qinghai Normal University are trying to save Tibetan folk music, which has been vanishing in the face of cultural conflict and globalisation. Led by anthropology professor Gerald Roche, the team is fighting fire with fire, using high-tech devices to capture tunes that are b
eing lost due in part to encroaching modernisation. ”The goal is to digitalise the songs we record and return them to our communities,” said 20-year-old student Dawa Drolma. “We want to record as many songs as possible.” Dubbed the Tibetan Endangered Music Project (TEMP), the volunteer-run programme aims to put all the digital songs they collect online, as a way of archiving the material for future generations.
COMPLIED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN
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