Post Tagged with: "Dastghī repertoires"
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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 […]