Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera - Couverture rigide

Huseynova, Aida

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0253019370 ISBN 13 : 9780253019370

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book traces the development of Azerbaijani art music from its origins in the Eastern, modal, improvisational tradition known as mugham through its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and world art music. Aida Huseynova places the fascinating and little-known history of music in Azerbaijan against the vivid backdrop of cultural life under Soviet influence, which paradoxically both encouraged and repressed the evolution of national musics and post-Soviet independence. Inspired by their neighbors to the East and West, Azerbaijani musicians enjoyed a period of remarkable creativity, composing and performing the first opera and the first ballet in the Muslim East, establishing the region's first Opera and Ballet Theater and Conservatory of Music, and discovering ways to merge the modal lyricism of mugham with the rhythmic dynamics of jazz. Drawing on previously unstudied archives, letters, and documents as well as her experience as an Azerbaijani musician and educator, Huseynova shows how Azerbaijani musical development was not a product of Soviet cultural policies but rather grew from and reflected deep and complex cultural processes.

Revue de presse :

"In each chapter Huseynova combines historical context, cultural insights, and musicological analysis to create a study of musical and cultural fusion that is as compelling as it is informative. She rounds off the work with the re-staging of the Uzeyir Hajibeyli's first mugham opera, played on the world stage with Alim Gasimov and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble-a triumphant testimony to the power of cultural fusion." - --Anna Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0253019370
• ISBN 13: 9780253019370
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360