Post Tagged with: "Azerbaijan"
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New article by Polina Dessiatnitchenko
The Voice of Azerbaijan: Experiencing Recordings of Hajibaba Huseynov and post-Soviet Muslim Musical IdentitiesPolina Dessiatnitchenko’s article has been published in the Yale Journal of Music & Religion’s special issue titled “Sacred Recitation and Ritual in Digital Worlds.” Her article is focused on the Azerbaijani mugham singer Hajibaba Huseynov and how his legacy continues to create transnational communities, connecting Azerbaijanis astride the Aras River. The article is free to read and […]
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Project Strands
MAQĀM BEYOND NATION is designed in the form of six interlinked research strands based in different contact zones across the maqām world. 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 […]