ISBN:
978-3-8258-1120-4
,
3-8258-1120-4
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 334 Seiten
Series Statement:
Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia 19
Keywords:
Xinjiang China
;
Ethnie, Asien
;
Uigure
;
Musik und Kultur
;
Musik
;
Volksmusik
;
Lied
;
Poesie
;
Sufismus
;
Sprache und Kultur
;
Orale Tradition
Abstract:
Over the past fifty years a project of culturally reflexive ethnic self-definition has transformed the Sufi poetry of the Uyghur muqam song tradition into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on world stages. This book compares the cultural materials, skills, and contexts of traditional muqam performance with those of the "modern" repertoire. Uyghur editors -politicians, scholars, and musicians -have revised this repertoire and created historical discourses around it that reflect new concepts of nationhood and ethnicity. In the muqams they have created a public representation used to promote Uyghur claims to an original, autochthonous piece of world cultural history and a dignified, shared identity. Light's ethnographic study of cultural reflexivity breaks new ground in understanding how the editing project relates to the ethnic politics of cultural intimacy around Sufism, gender, love, oral performance, language, and poetry.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Note on Terminology and Spelling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Uyghur Performing Arts and the Muqams -- 3 ThePoetics and Politics of Literary Sufism -- 4 Give and Take: Genealogies in Music and Art -- 5 Omar Akhun's Muqams -- 6 Performing, Editing and Publishing the Muqam Songs -- 7 Dastan and Mäsräp Songs in the Muqams --8 Conclusion -- Appendix: A Brief Introduction to Uyghur Musical Instruments -- Bibliography --Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [307]-330; Teilw. in transliterierter arabischer und persischer Sprache; Based on the author's dissertation, Indiana University, 1998 entitled "Slippery paths: the performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity"
,
Dissertation, Indiana University, 1998
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