Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI recommend this book not only for the lovers of mugham music, or solely for musicologists and ethnomusicologists, but also for those interested in the processes of the old Soviet Union, in musical change, and in the struggles and syntheses of national and global tendencies.
* Asian Music *
Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera, is wellresearched and thoughtfully structured. The writing is fluent and pleasant to read, and the book achieves its goal of providing a detailed overview of composed music in Azerbaijan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
* Slavic Review *
Aida Huseynova's book Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera offers a rare resource for the exploration of Azerbaijani art music of the twentieth century.
* Notes *
Music of Azerbaijan paves the path for crucial research avenues on Azerbaijani musical culture.
* Fontes Artis Musice *
Table of ContentsEthnomusicology Multimedia Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Language and Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1: Azerbaijani Musical Nationalism during the Pre-Soviet and Soviet Eras
Chapter 2: Pioneers of the New Azerbaijani Musical Identity
Chapter 3: The Russian-Soviet Factor: Facilitating or Disrupting Synthesis?
Chapter 4: The Beginning of the National Style: 1900-The 1930s
Chapter 5: Growing Maturity: 1940-The Early 1960s
Chapter 6: The Spirit of Experimentalism: Since the 1960s
Chapter 7: Songwriters
Chapter 8: Jazz Mugham
Chapter 9: Leaving the Post-Soviet Era Behind
Chapter 10: "Mugham Opera" of the Silk Road
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
