One Last Music Culture: Mongolian Long Song
Mongolia is on the continent of Asia, and is located in north central Asia between Russia and China, and has been heavily influenced by these two countries. The capital of Mongolia is Ulaanbaatar. Mongolia has longer colder winters with short cool/hot summers and has many deserts, semi-deserts, and upland steppes, which are higher altitude large areas of grasslands that are unforested. Mongolia itself rests at a high altitude and is brought to even higher heights with the Mongolian Mountains in the southwest. Most of Mongolia's grasslands are used as pastures for livestock and not as areas for crops. Most of the people in Mongolia speak Mongolian. The Mongols had traditionally practiced shamanism as their form of religion, but Lamaism (Tibetan Buddhism) with some additional shamanistic aspects is now broadly practiced. About 25-30% of the Mongolian people have a nomadic lifestyle. The arts in Mongolia have developed from a long history of oral traditions such as oral heroic storie...