Fighting Covid-19 with Mongolian fiddle stories

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ID8112147
AuthorsGegentuul Baioud (0000-0003-2448-6175, Macquarie University), Gegentuul Hongye Bai (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume39
Issue5
Pages577-586
Publication date2020-07-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMultilingua (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0167-8507 • E-ISSN: 1613-3684
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/multi-2020-0087
OpenAlexW3044348147
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited15

This article examines the recontextualization of traditional Mongolian verbal art khuuriin ülger (‘fiddle story’) by Mongolian folk singers in the context of the spread of COVID-19 in Inner Mongolia, China. Drawing on the concept of intertextuality, I analyze the verbal and visual signs in 94 videos of Mongolian fiddle stories. The article argues that the minority Mongols participate in the dominant global and national discourses while at the same time creating a sense of Mongolian-ness by marrying Mongolian verbal art with public health messages related to COVID-19. The article also finds that the multivocal COVID-19 Mongolian fiddle stories are a medium to articulate the very heteroglot sense of the world in which minority Mongols dwell and to construct and reaffirm their multi-layered identities. The study contributes to our understanding of how traditional genres and symbols evolve in response to the pandemic

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Art · China · Construct (python library · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Intertextuality · Literature · Media studies · Pandemic · Sociology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · History

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