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Tuva: Information from Answers.com (2123 words) |
 | The Tuva Republic IPA: [təˈvɑː] (Russian: Респу́блика Тыва́; Tuvan: Тыва Республика) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). |
| Tuva was made the Tuvan Autonomous Oblast and then became the Tuva ASSR on October 10, 1961. |
| Tuva was a signatory to the March 31, 1992 treaty that created the Russian Federation. |
| Music: (January 30 - February 5, 1997) (1446 words) |
| In the case of quartet Huun-Huur-Tu (also known as the Throat Singers of Tuva), the art of imitation is rooted in a centuries-old world view of music as an offering, as opposed to the commercial vehicle catering to the least common denominator we've come to expect. |
| With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tuva retained its economic and cultural autonomy, though it became politically a part of Russia. |
| While Levin maintains the physical landscape of Tuva--so much a part of their music and culture--remains largely unchanged today, he intimates that modernization, and the popularization of Tuvan music in the global market, is literally loving the music to death. |
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