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By Aida Huseynova

ISBN-10: 0253019370

ISBN-13: 9780253019370

ISBN-10: 0253019451

ISBN-13: 9780253019455

This booklet lines the improvement of Azerbaijani artwork track from its origins within the japanese, modal, improvisational culture often called mugham via its fusion with Western classical, jazz, and international artwork track. Aida Huseynova locations the attention-grabbing and little-known historical past of track in Azerbaijan opposed to the shiny backdrop of cultural existence below Soviet impression, which satirically either inspired and repressed the evolution of nationwide musics and post-Soviet independence. encouraged by way of their acquaintances to the East and West, Azerbaijani musicians loved a interval of outstanding creativity, composing and acting the 1st opera and the 1st ballet within the Muslim East, setting up the region’s first Opera and Ballet Theater and Conservatory of track, and researching how one can merge the modal lyricism of mugham with the rhythmic dynamics of jazz. Drawing on formerly unstudied information, letters, and files in addition to her event as an Azerbaijani musician and educator, Huseynova exhibits how Azerbaijani musical improvement was once no longer a made from Soviet cultural guidelines yet relatively grew from and mirrored deep and intricate cultural processes.

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