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The Music of Central Asia, Ebook 2
Edited by Theodore Levin, Saida Daukeyeva and Elmira Köchümkulova
Published by: Indiana University Press
650 Pages, 456 color illus.
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- 9780253017642
- Published: December 2016
$39.99
- eBook
- 9780253029225
- Published: December 2016
$39.99
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This beautiful and informative enhanced ebook—so comprehensive it had to be split into two volumes, ebook 1 and ebook 2—offers a detailed introduction to the musical heritage of Central Asia for readers and listeners worldwide. Music of Central Asia balances "insider" and "outsider" perspectives with contributions by 27 authors from 14 countries. This stunning electronic book allows readers the opportunity to deeply engage with source material through over 180 embedded audio and video, pop-up study questions, transliterations and translations of performed texts, and direct links to the companion website (www.musicofcentralasia.org). The audio and video examples include transliterations and translations of the performed texts and a follow-along feature highlights the song lyrics in the text, as the audio samples play. This generously illustrated book is supplemented with boxes and sidebars, musician profiles, and an illustrated glossary of musical instruments, making it an indispensable resource for both general readers and specialists.
Ebook 1 includes part I, "Music and Culture in Central Asia," an introductory overview of the music and musical instruments of Central Asia, and part II, "The Nomadic World," which focuses on music and musical life in historically nomadic regions of Central Asia. Ebook 2 contains part III, "The World of Sedentary Dwellers," which focuses on music and musical life in historically settled regions of Central Asia, and part IV, "Central Asian Music in the Age of Globalization," which addresses "the future of the past," focusing on cultural revitalization and renewal, tradition-based popular music, and contemporary music inspired but not constrained by tradition.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Accessing Music Examples
A Note on Music Terminology
Guide to Transliteration
Timeline of Central Asian History
Ebook 1
Part I: Music and Culture in Central Asia
1. Music in Central Asia: An Overview / Theodore Levin
2. Musical Instruments in Central Asia / Theodore Levin
Part II: The Nomadic World
Prologue: Who Are the Nomads of Central Asia? / Theodore Levin
3. Introduction to Oral Epic / Elmira Köchümkulova
4. The Epic Manas / Elmira Köchümkulova
5. Oral Epic in Kazakhstan: Körughly and a Dynasty of Great Jyraus / Uljan Baibosynova
6. Music of the Karakalpaks
Part I: The Epic World of the Karakalpaks: Jyrau and Baqsy / Frédéric Léotar
Part II: Qyssakhan: Performer of Written and Oral Literature / Kalmurza Kurbanov and Saida Daukeyeva
7. The Art of the Turkmen Bagshy / Jamilya Gurbanova
8. The Turkmen Dutar / David Fossum
9. Kyrgyz Wisdom Songs: Terme Yrlary / Elmira Köchümkulova
10. Aqyns and Improvised-Poetry Competitions among the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz / Elmira Köchümkulova and Jangül Qojakhmetova
11. Singing Traditions of the Kazakhs / Saida Daukeyeva
12. Kyrgyz Funeral Laments / Elmira Köchümkulova
13. Kyrgyz Wedding Songs / Elmira Köchümkulova
14. Narrative Instrumental Music: Kazakh Küi and Kyrgyz Küü / Sayra Raymbergenova and Nurlanbek Nyshanov
Profile: Abdulhait Raiymbergenov / Theodore Levin
Profile: Nurak Abdyrakhmanov / Elmira Köchümkulova
15. Kyrgyz Jaw Harps / Nurlanbek Nyshanov
16. The Kazakh Qobyz: Between Tradition and Modernity / Saida Daukeyeva
17. Dombyra Performance, Migration, and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs / Saida Daukeyeva
Ebook 2
Part III: The World of Sedentary-Dwellers
Prologue: Patterns of Culture: Sedentary-Dwellers / Theodore Levin
18. Maqom Traditions of the Tajiks and Uzbeks / William Sumits and Theodore Levin
Profile: The Academy of Maqom / Abduvali Abdurashidov
Profile: Turgun Alimatov / Theodore Levin
19. The Uyghur MuqaZ / Rachel Harris
20. New Images of Azerbaijani Mugham in the Twentieth Century / Aida Huseynova
Profile: Alim and Fargana Qasimov / Theodore Levin
21. Popular Classics: Traditional Singer-Songwriters in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan / Theodore Levin
22. Religious Music and Chant in the Culture of Sedentary-Dwellers / Aleksandr Djumaev
23. Sufism and the Ceremony of Zikr in Ghulja / Mukaddas Mijit
24. Dastan Performance among the Uyghurs / Rahile Dawut and Elise Anderson
25. Female Musicians in Uzbekistan: Otin-oy, Dutarchi, and Maqomchi / Razia Sultanova
26. Music in the City of Bukhara / Theodore Levin and Aleksandr Djumaev
Profile: Ari Babakhanov / Aleksandr Djumaev
27. Music and Culture in Badakhshan / Theodore Levin
28. The Maddoh Tradition of Badakhshan / Benjamin Koen
Music Example: Maddoh / Theodore Levin
29. Qasoid-khonī in the Wakhan Valley of Badakhshan / Chorshanbe Goibnazarov
30. Falak: Spiritual Songs of the Mountains Tajiks / Faroghat Azizi
Part IV: Central Asian Music in the Age of Globalization
31. Revitalizing Musical Traditions: The Aga Khan Music Initiative / Theodore Levin
Nurturing Local Talent, Creating Global Connections / Fairouz Nishanova
The Genesis of Rainbow / Theodore Levin
32. Cultural Renewal in Kyrgyzstan: Neotraditionalism and the New Era in Kyrgyz Music / Raziya Syrdybaeva
33. Popular Music in Uzbekistan / Kerstin Klenke
34. Innovation in Tradition: Some Examples from Music and Theater in Uzbekistan / Aleksandr Djumaev
35. Tradition-Based Popular Music in Contemporary Tajikistan / Federico Spinetti
Musical Instrument Glossary
Glossary of Terms
Inventory of Audio and Video Examples
List of Contributors
Index
Theodore Levin currently serves as Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Central Asia. He is the author of The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) and Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond.
Saida Daukeyeva is a Kazakh music researcher and musician. She is author of Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi.
Elmira Köchümkulova is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek. She is author of Respect Graces the Living, Lamentation Graces the Dead": Kyrgyz Funeral Lamentations (in Kyrgyz), and Kyrgyz Herders of Soviet Uzbekistan: Historical and Ethnographic Narratives, (in Kyrgyz and English).
The Music of Central Asia is like its subject: vast, variegated, resonant, and rich in musical traditions that have remained all too closed to outsiders for centuries. The book is both authoritative and innovative, ringing with regional voices and dozens of well-chosen examples of cultural riches to be sampled and savored by both specialists and students.
~Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
The Music of Central Asia is an encyclopedic page turner! This is essential reading for all performers, composers, ethnomusicologists, students, scholars and culturally engaged people everywhere. There has never before been one book that so expertly, vividly and deeply unites the past, present and potential future of an entire swath of the world's musical landscape.
~David Harrington, Kronos Quartet
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