Abstract
The paper aims to examine the concept of ‘national’ or ‘folk’ music within the state culture-building process in both the socialist and post-socialist eras in Mongolia. By focusing on process of nationalisation, commercialisation and popularisation, the paper argues that musical culture was and has been politicised in both eras. Furthermore, it argues that musical culture in post-socialist Mongolia can be regarded as the continuation, transformation and, in some cases, the amplification of the state-socialist culture-building process, designed to be ‘national in form and socialist in content’, so as to become nationalist in form and commercial in content.
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