After hours of planning, meeting, researching, writing, organizing, contemplating, and finally completing, our project is at an end. I’d like to use this post to voice my thoughts on the last days of this process and showcase some of my findings that didn’t quite make it to the team StoryMap.
I found Tengger Cavalry and Hanggai through a music discovery platform, and a few posts from the same platform popped up in my searches throughout the project. A number of these mentioned an individual called Ethnic Zorigoo, a singer who, like many other Mongolian musicians, incorporates elements of throat singing and traditional themes into his work. Unlike many of the other musicians I’ve found, he doesn’t shy away from more modern genres like hip-hop and techno. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any biographical information or news articles about him that also happened to be in English, but I found his music interesting and unconventional enough to merit a mention.



My search for information on Tengger Cavalry actually turned up a second metal band, Nine Treasures, based in Inner Mongolia. I decided not to include them on the story map as I already had a metal band, but I thought I’d include some of their music in this post to showcase another style of Mongolian metal.

The last few weeks of our project have been at once intense and relieving for me. Once we had put everything together, it was just a matter of adding the finishing touches and preparing for our presentation. On one hand, I appreciate having some academic weight lifted off my shoulders. On the other hand, I really enjoyed working with the wonderful people in Team Heart and I feel that I gained quite a bit of knowledge and a number of valuable experiences over the course of this semester. It’s been a wild ride, but I don’t regret it in the least.