Tanya Merchant

Women Musicians of Uzbekistan (eBook, ePUB)

From Courtyard to Conservatory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 the ways 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252097638
• Artikelnr.: 43808437

Autorenporträt

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