Woody Packard

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Learning Mongolia

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Much of the night these gentlemen have been practicing a style of singing that is dying out in their Dorvod ethnic group. Few young people are interested in the old songs, and few old people are left to sing them.

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2 Khovd, Mongolia, Google Maps
3 Center, video
4 Genghis Khan a Prolific Lover, DNA Data Implies, news.nationalgeogrphic.com
5 Har Us Noor, video
6 Khovd, Mongolia, Google Maps
8 Nurbek, video
9 Traditional Music Practice, audio (coming soon)
11 Ger Raising, video
12 Norov, Spoken Words, audio (coming soon)
13 Wedding Song, video
14 Mongolia after Chinggis, UB Post, Sunday, July 21, 2013