Mongol Music Archive is dedicated to capturing everyday uses of traditional music in the daily lives of Mongolian herders. As a general shift from nomadic to urban lifestyles occurs across Mongolia, it is important to capture these moments and performances. While traditional music will remain a part of Mongolian culture with or without nomadic herding, these performances exhibit something that staged performances by professional musicians cannot. Herders sing about actions they carry out on a daily basis, the environment they inhabit, and use songs as tools to calm and train their animals. This project aims to preserve a specific aspect of Mongolian music to serve the tradition as a whole.
This website and all its contents have been produced by Dimitri Staszewski with support from a Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship and assistance from Røde Microphones. Staszewski was awarded a Certificate of Honor by the Mongolian Embassy in San Francisco for “Introducing Mongolian culture through professional sound recordings of traditional music and songs of Mongolian nomads to the American public.”
