Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

Raised as an exile in India, Tibetan ethnomusicologist and first-time filmmaker Ngawang Choephel returned to his homeland as an adult in 1995, video camera in hand, to document the rare pockets of ...