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Strand 1: Maqām across the Soviet-Chinese divide
Rachel Harris, Giovanni De Zorzi, Mukaddas Mijit This strand aims at “unbordering” Central Asian maqām repertoires across the former Soviet-Chinese divide. It focuses on repertoires canonised in the twentieth century as the separate Uzbek and Tajik Shashmaqām, and the Uyghur Twelve Muqam, and also less recognised regional maqām traditions from Khorezm, Ferghana and Turpan. Since the mid-twentieth century these repertoires have been extensively nationalised, and the overwhelming thrust of scholarship, […]
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Strand 2: Migrant memories, migrant creativities
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Strand 3: Neo-Ottomanism and maqām revival
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Strand 4: Pre-national links across Iran and the Caucasus
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Strand 5: Post-Soviet Muslim transnational musical subjectivities
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Strand 6: New Creativities in Iranian Classical Music
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Maqām Beyond Nation
Maqām Beyond Nation explores a field of music-making that stretches from North Africa to Central Asia; a set of historically fluid and inter-connected creative practices which were transformed under 20th century nationalisms into fixed repertoires. The project seeks to understand the major changes which are now weakening these nationalist models. We attend to the musical materials and their potential for new creativity, and to the social: how a focus on expressive culture can further our understanding of the aesthetics of religious revival and cultural responses to the experience of forced migration. Our case studies are fault lines across the maqām world – among them the former Soviet-Chinese border, and the border between Iran and Azerbaijan – key spaces where shared traditions of music-making were split apart by the formation of new nation states. To understand these spaces, we draw on archival, analytical and ethnographic research, as well as practice- based creative collaboration. Our findings will be shared through an exciting programme of workshops and conferences, publications and films, collaborative performances and compositions. Read more >>