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Book SynopsisThe Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Reinhard Strohm: The Music Road: an expedition across time and space Keynote 2: Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective Alexandrian Tracks 3: Gabriela Currie: Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus 4: Ciro Lo Muzio: Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra 5: Donatella Restani: Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries) Intercultural Islam 6: Andrew Hicks: Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism 7: Lisa Nielson: Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries 8: Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek: Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.) 9: Owen Wright: Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide 10: Kevin Dawe: Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey Indian Encounters 11: Margaret Walker: 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadère: The Indian dance as musical nexus 12: Nalini Ghuman: Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body' Hellas between West and East 13: Katy Romanou: The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century 14: Walter Puchner: A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century) 15: Kostas Kardamis: Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands 16: Avra Xepapadakou: European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East A Gypsy Epilogue 17: Anna G. Piotrowska: From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody' General bibliography Index
