Mongolian Music, Globalization, and Nomadism

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Andrew Colwell

Published:

2022

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

This chapter addresses the historical and contemporary relationship of Mongolian musical performers to globalization, detailing how worldly connections developed in Mongolia well before the democratic era of capitalism, which is typically associated with globalization. It addresses cultural tourism and concert touring as two modes of globalizing musical performance; case studies stem from fieldwork professionals in Ulaanbaatar, who concertize in the tourism industry, and with expatriate musicians in southern Germany, who perform for the world music economy. A key theme throughout these case studies is nomadism, not the pastoral lifeway, but the Eurocentric and Orientalist discourse. Both foreigners and Mongolians play into and with nomadism as they leverage or mitigate the benefits and risks of globalization. Globalization, though, does not entail the destruction of Indigeneity, rather, globalization introduces great political, economic, and ecological uncertainty that clearly plays out today, but their futures are yet to be performed into existence by Mongolians and their cohorts.

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