Post Tagged with: "Post-Soviet"
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Neva Mugham in post-Soviet Azerbaijan
The many meanings of Neva Mugham in post-Soviet Azerbaijan by Polina Dessiatnitchenko: Azerbaijani_Nava.pdf
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Strand 5: Post-Soviet Muslim transnational musical subjectivities
Polina Dessiatnitchenko This strand focuses on how mugham is part of the current increasing ties between Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey and other regions in the Muslim world, and the emergence of post-Soviet Muslim transnational musical subjectivities. Significant aspects of the revival in Azerbaijan include the reintroduction of neutral tones, efforts to rediscover lost repertoire, new discourses around Divine love (ishq); emphasis on the prosodic meters (‘arūḍ) and spiritual meanings of the ghazal […]