Resources to study Sayan-Altay performing arts

To date covers mainly Khakas, Shor, and Altaian culture.

Sayan-Altay culture

• Living Tongues Altai-Sayan Language Project – Led by linguists Gregory Anderson and David Harrison (English)

Altay

• Altay Republic's official portal (Russian, English)
• Алтайский региональный исторический портал – By members of the Faculty of History of Altai State University, Barnaul (Russian)
• История и культура народов Алтая – By ethnographers Ivan Nazarov and Erzhan Bel’gibaev (Russian)

Khakassia

• Juha Janhunen, Khakas – From Encyclopedia of World Cultures 1996 (English)
• Khakasiya – Tadar chonnïn saytï – KhakasWeb and Forum (Russian, Khakas)
• XL Report The Khakassians – TV documentary by rt_news, 2009 (English)

Shoria

• Gornaya Shoriya – Blog about Shor language and literature by Ruslan Topakov (Russian)
• Новости Шорскогом народа – 'News of the Shor people' by Информационный центр «Шория» (Russian)
• Shorica / Gornaya Shoria – Website about Shor people, land, and culture, maintained by Shor, Russian and German scholars (Russian)
• Шорский информационный бюллетень «Темнер» – Newsletter of the Shor people (Russian)

Tofalaria

• Тофастан – о тофаларах и Тофаларии – Blog about Tofa language (Russian)

Newspapers – Radio – Television

• Izenner! – Khakas TV, meanwhile in Russian
• Khada – Vmeste – Khakas-language TV
• Khakas Radiozï – Online archive of Khakas-language radio broadcasts
• Radio Shoriya – So far (2012) broadcasting only Russian music, in Russian
• Республиканская газета “Хакасия” (Russian)

Blogs & Video channels about life, politics, culture

• Изен ползын Илбек Хакасстан! – Blog by anadoluolgy (Russian)
• timur b. davletov – Blog about Khakas culture and Türksoy (Turkish and English)
• TolyKhooray’s YouTube Channel

Literature – Poetry – Theatre Modern arts

• Anzass – Shor modern art and poetry by Lubov Arbachakova / АРБАЧАКОВА Любовь Никитовна
• Chitĭgen Читiген – Хакасский театр драмы и этнической музыки – Khakas-language theatre; includes Ensemble Aylanïs
• Литературная карта Хакасии – Bio-bibliographical resource for Khakas storytellers, writers and poets, maintained by Национальная библиотека им. Н.Г. Доможакова
• ХАКАССКИЙ ЯЗЫК – Библиотека материалов хакасского языка – Khakas poetry and song texts, so far without translation

Music institutes – Festivals – National holidays

Music institutes

• Khakasskaya Respublikanskaya Filarmoniya

Festivals

• Chir Chayaan Чир-Чайаан – International ecological-ethnic festival in Abakan (Khakassia)
• Mir Sibiri МИР Сибири – Successor of Sayan Ring Саянское кольцо in Shushenskoe (Krasnoyarskiy Kray) near Abakan
• Ot Ïrï От ыры – International ethno-estrada festival in Abakan
• Ustuu-Khuree Устуу-Хурээ – Международный фестиваль живой музыки и веры / International Festival of Living Music and Faith, in Chadan (Tïva)
• Zhivaya Voda Живая вода – Фестиваль этнических культур – ‘The first festival in Russia to promote modern ethnic music (world music)’, near Novosibirsk

National holidays

• Albïgha payram / Албыға-Пайрам (Shor)
• El oyïn АЛТАЙСКИЙ ПРАЗДНИК ЭЛ ОЙЫН – Altaian national holiday
• Tun ayran Тун Айран – Khakas holiday of the First Milk
• Tun payram / Тун Пайрам (Khakas)

Altaian, Khakas, and Shor Performing arts

Altaian musicians and groups

• AltayKay / Altaikai
• Bolot Bairyshev
• Cheinesh Baitushkina

Shor musician

• Чылтыс Таннагашева (Chyltys Tannagasheva) – Female Shor throat-singer

Khakas musicians and groups

• Aylanïs (Ailanys) Фольклорный ансамбль «Айланыс» – Folk music and dance group connected to Teatre Chitĭgen
• Han Tigir – Khan Tigĭr at Face Music (group inactive, 2012)
• Sabjilar – Sabjïlar at Pure Nature Music (group inactive, 2012)
• TransSiberia – World fusion / electronic with Toma Davletova
• Üch Süme-R - Üch Süme-R at Face Music (group inactive 2012)
• Ülger (also Ulger, Ulgher, Ulghère) – Republican's Folk music and dance group

About Khakas music and culture

• Саянские зарисовки (блог Сибдея). Стараюсь уловить песнь степноя орла... – Sibdey’s blog Sayan Sketches, ‘trying to catch the song of the steppe eagle…’
• Тадар чон сарыннары / Хакасская музыка [Tadar people’s songs / Khakas music] – Successor of СИБДЕЙ ТАҢМАЛАРЫ. Ікі тілліг ӧӧн тадар блогы!, with branches Khakas muzykazy on Facebook and Хакасская музыка on V kontakte
• Sibdey Tangmalarï – Ikĭ tĭllĭg öön Tadar blogï! – Sibdey’s blog about Khakas music
• Sibday’s YouTube Channel
• Хакасская музыка Горловое пение – First website about Khakas music by Sibdey Tom, with many audio examples

About Altaian music

• КАЙ – АЛТАЙСКОЕ ГОРЛОВОЕ ПЕНИЕ – About Altaian throat singing, by TA-MUSICA, Онгудай, Республика Алтай

About Tuvinian music

• Friends of Tuva (FoT) – Active, unfunded resource site about Tuva and more, started by Ralph Leighton in 1981

About epics and other narratives

• Информационный бюллетень координационного Центра комплексных исследований эпической традиции – Online bulletin about southern Siberian epics, by Dmitriy A. Funk

Song texts

• Altaian lyrics at websites of Bolot Bairyshev and AltayKay
• Khakas lyrics at ХАКАССКИЙ ЯЗЫК. Библиотека материалов хакасского языка
• Tuvinian lyrics and translations at Lyrics / Ыр Сөстери at ТываВики / TyvaWiki

Research institutes

Regional

• Gorno-Altaisk State University (GASU) (Russian)
• Institute of History and Law of Khakas State University – Includes Dept. Archeology, Ethnography, and Historical region studies (Russian)
• Научно-исследовательский институт алтаистики им. С.С. Суразакова – Research Institute for Altaistics, Gorno-Altaisk (Russian)
• Тувинский институт гуманитарных исследований (TIGI) – Tuvinian Research Institute for the Humanities (Russian)
• XakNIIYaLI – Khakas Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History (Russian)

Russian

• Department of Siberian Ethnography of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ('Kunstkamera'), St. Petersburg (Russian)
• Институт филологии СО РАН / Сектор фольклора – Folklore studies of the Philological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Институт археологии и этнографии (ИАЭТ СО РАН) – Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Music ethnographic expeditions of Novosibirsk State Conservatoire im. M.I. Glinka (Russian)

European

• Centre d'études mongoles et sibériennes (CEMS)
• Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU)
• Sibirienzentrum at Max-Planck-Institut

Journals, Series, and Web resources for southern Siberia

• Altaic Wiki – With some music
• AnthroBase.com – Searchable, multilingual database of anthropological texts
• Anthropology of East Europe Review (AEER) – Open access, edited journal of scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, and Central Asia
• Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative / Türk Öyküleri Sandığı – Located at Texas Tech University
• Central Eurasian Studies World Wide – Resources for the study of Central Eurasia from Harvard University
• Древности Алтая – Межвузовский сборник научных трудов Горно-Алтайского государственного университета
• Languages of the Russian Federation (Asia) – By Ethnologue: Languages of the World
• Études Mongoles & Sibériennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibétaines (EMSCAT)
• Eurasica - Евразийский исторический сервер – History, ethnography, and culture of Eurasia, by Kyrgyz historian Rustam Abdumanapov
• Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore – Estonian journal with academic studies in folklore studies, comparative mythological research, cultural anthropology, and related fields
• Inner Asia – Interdisciplinary journal
• Мир Евразии – Journal of Gorno-Altaysk State University
• Monumenta Altaica / алтайское языкознание – Altaic linguistics website, maintained by Russian linguist Ilya Gruntov (Russian, English)
• National Library of the Republic of Khakassia
• Научное обозрение Саяно-Алтая – Journal of the Khakas Research Institute for Language, Literature, and History
• Новые исследования Тувы / New research of Tuva – Research news from Tuva (Russian, English)
• Памятники фольклора народов Сибири и Дальнего Востока – Series of editions of folklore of the peoples of Siberia and the Far East
• Siberian Federal University Journal, series Humanities and Social Sciences – Academic journal from Krasnoyarsk (English)
• Sibirica – Portal of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of Northern Asia of SO RAN (Russian)
• Sibirica - Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies (English)
• Сибирская Заимка - История Сибири в научных публикациях – Online journal The history of Sibiria in Scholarly Articles
• Türkic History – Russian-English website devoted to the history of Turkic peoples (Russian, English)

Organisations of endangered peoples and cultures

• Cultural Survival – American organisation for partnering with indigenous peoples to defend their lands, languages, and cultures, publishing Cultural Survival Quarterly
• Etnic.ru – Community of lovers of ethnic culture of the indigenous peoples of the North, including southern Siberia (Russian)
• Льыоравэтльан / Lauravetlan – Информационно-Образовательную Сеть Коренных Народов / Information and Education Network of Indigenous Peoples (LIENIP) – Organization for and by indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation
• RAIPON – Ассоциация коренных малочисленных народов Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока Российской Федерации / Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East
• Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire – by Eesti Keele Instituut / Institute of the Estonian Language
• Языки народов Сибири, находящиеся под угрозой исчезновения / Endangered Languages of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia – UNESCO organisation

Networks

• Anthropology of Siberia / Антропология Сибири at Open Anthropology Cooperative
• Arnold Bake Dutch Society for Ethnomusicology
• European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
• International Council for Traditional Music
• ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities
• ICTM Study Group for Music of the Turkic Speaking World
• Soyuz – Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies

Friends

• Fusica's Weblog – Mark van Tongeren's weblog about Physics and Metaphysics of Harmonics and Overtone Singing
• Primitive Equations – Blogspot with field recordings, lost ethnic gems, reedits, sources of world music, remastered archives, and ethnic electronica
• Robert Beahrs – American composer, vocalist, and musical ethnographer interested in Turkic nomadic music/sound-making in Siberia and Inner Asia
• Raphael De Cock – Belgian musician who performs Khakas khay and chatkhan (among many other things)
• Stichting Window to Europe – Maxim Chapochnikov’s foundation for cultural exchange with Siberia and Central Asia
• The western Yugur steppe – Marti Roos’ webstek about the Western Yugur people & Yugur (and other) Verbal Arts
• Travelphotos – by Ronald Ykema