Some Mongolian folk songs rescued from extinction

From: China Daily | Date: December 20, 2005 | Copyright information

HOHHOT: Mongolian long-tune folk songs have been approved as representative of human oral and non-material heritage by both China and Mongolia.

Alxa Mongolian folk songs are more than 300 years old, according to Gerel, secretary of the Alxa Association of Folk Songs in the Alxa League, based in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

"Since September 2003 when the association was reconvened, we have covered almost every corner of Alxa and visited hundreds of people," he said. "We now have a collection of 1,100 rare folk songs."

Alxa folk songs are sung by herdsmen. About two thirds of ...

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