While on a train ride back from Mongolia The Culture Bum Podcast ran into Dennis. Dennis is creating a documentary about music that is being lost to time, particularly throat singing. He has traveled all over Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Western China as well as parts of Siberia. You can find Dennis on Facebook and many other places by Googling "Time Travels Through Sound"

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Topics discussed

-Doing the Mongolian Visa Renewal
-Throat singing
-Music traditions from Western China,Tuvalu Russia, Mongolia, etc
-Dennis' journey from Kazakhstan to Alaska
-The process of making a documentary
-Tuvan music experience
-Do other cultures appreciate foreign interest?
-Dukha Reindeer Tribe of Mongolia
-Traveling through remote Russia and Siberia by bus and train
-Bus and train travel in Asia and the US
-Personal space
-A brief history of Turkey
-Making connections while traveling
-Communicating with third languages
-Chinese scholarships for Mongolian regions
-What cameras are used in filming on the go
-Star Wars and their character motivations
-GoPro Review
-What to do when your band gets banned from all the clubs?
-Kazakh population in China
-Getting stopped for photos
-The myth of “Asian Culture”
-Chinese Muslims