Women Musicians of Uzbekistan: From Courtyard to Conservatory - Brossura

Merchant, Tanya

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252081064 ISBN 13: 9780252081064

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Fascinated by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, Tanya Merchant ventures into Tashkent's post-Soviet music scene to place women musicians within the nation's evolving artistic and political arenas. Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Merchant's recounting of the women's experiences, stories, and memories underscores the complex role that these musicians and vocalists play in educational institutions and concert halls, street kiosks and the culturally essential sphere of wedding music. Throughout the book, Merchant ties nationalism and femininity to performances and reveals how the music of these women is linked to a burgeoning national identity. Important and revelatory, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan looks into music's part in constructing gendered national identity and the complicated role of femininity in a former Soviet republic's national project.

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L'autore

Tanya Merchant is an assistant professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0252081064
• ISBN 13: 9780252081064
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208