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Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
Aida Huseynova
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Description for Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
Hardback. Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 360 pages, 91 music exx., 27 b&w illus., 2 maps, 33 video, 30 audio. BIC Classification: AVA; AVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 660.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Ethnomusicology Multimedia
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253019370
SKU
V9780253019370
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About Aida Huseynova
Aida Huseynova, a musicologist from Azerbaijan, is Adjunct Lecturer in Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. She is the author of the educational DVD Music and Culture of Azerbaijan and author (with Munara Mailybekova) of the DVD Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan.
Reviews for Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera
Music of Azerbaijan paves the path for crucial research avenues on Azerbaijani musical culture.
Fontes Artis Musice
I recommend this book not only for the lovers of mugham music, or solely for musicologists and ethnomusicologists, but also for those interested in the processes of the old Soviet Union, in musical change, and in the struggles and syntheses of ... Read more
Fontes Artis Musice
I recommend this book not only for the lovers of mugham music, or solely for musicologists and ethnomusicologists, but also for those interested in the processes of the old Soviet Union, in musical change, and in the struggles and syntheses of ... Read more