Post Tagged with: "Azerbaijan"
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Strand 4: Pre-national links across Iran and the Caucasus
Polina Dessiatnitchenko, Saeid Kordmafi This strand comprises a comparative study of maqām-based dastghī repertoires which were spread over Iran and Caucasus in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, we explore shared networks of exchange and patronage among Iranian and Azerbaijani musicians, the presence of Iranian religious singers (ta‘ziyya khâns) in urban centres in Azerbaijan, and the majlis gatherings which hosted Iranian musicians and nurtured these […]
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Strand 6: New Creativities in Iranian Classical Music
Saeid Kordmafi This strand explores the potentials for incorporating into contemporary Iranian classical music performance musical materials, techniques and structures drawn from three neighbouring music cultures: Arab, Tajik and Azerbaijani classical traditions. One of the key issues of concern to Iranian musicians over the last few decades has been a perception of the stagnancy of creativity in contemporary Iranian classical music. One response has come from a group of revivalist […]