Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to OperaIndiana University Press, 2016 M03 21 - 360 pages 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Azerbaijani Musical Nationalism during the PreSoviet and Soviet Eras | 28 |
2 Pioneers of the New Azerbaijani Musical Identity | 65 |
Facilitating or Disrupting Synthesis? | 87 |
1900the 1930s | 111 |
1940the Early 1960s | 144 |
Since the 1960s | 162 |
7 Songwriters | 196 |
9 Leaving the PostSoviet Era Behind | 236 |
10 Mugham Opera of the Silk Road | 255 |
Epilogue | 270 |
Glossary | 273 |
Notes | 277 |
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8 Jazz Mugham | 217 |