Jean During

A SENSE OF TRADITION IN EASTERN MUSICAL CULTURES

Four lectures on Tradition and Aesthetics in Islamic Cultures through the Bias of Music

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Produktbeschreibung

The word 'tradition' is so common that its meaning seems self-evident. Without a precise definition and without considering the relevance of its use, it may refer to any practice, custom, or habit in any given culture. Irrespective of its content or its object, Tradition is an ideal representation as well as a real process of transmission. It must be dynamic and dialectic in order to incorporate the possibility of continuous transformation. In that sense, Tradition is always present and always modern, while conversely, modernity quickly becomes old. What then distinguishes Tradition from modernity? These general questions and paradoxes of Tradition are broached here in the context of the history of Iranian culture with a focus on music which holds a privileged place as a phenomenon of transmission and reception of knowledge, values and meaning. In four lectures given at Dartmouth College in 1994, the author explores the question of the traditionality of tradition, as well as its foundations in Islamic culture, especially in the arts and music. As a supplement, the author presents an exceptional 'case study' which illustrates his model of the tradition in a very concrete way through the testimony of an important transmitter of the Persian vocal art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781471018121
• ISBN-10: 1471018121
• Artikelnr.: 66900402

Autorenporträt

Jean During was born in France in 1947. As a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Paris) he has published a dozen books on the musical traditions and cultures of Inner-Asia, numerous articles and around 60 CDs with analytic notices. His fieldwork covers many traditions of Inner-Asia where he lived for fifteen years. These four lectures were developed by the author in his voluminous work Quelque chose se passe. Le sens de la tradition dans l'Orient musical. Lagrasse: Verdier, 1994.