Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781138489004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Nooshin, Laudan

Opis

This book interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings and the relationships of alterity which they sustain. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of central issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practices by which new music comes into being.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Part I Musicological Narratives of Creativity: Approaching the study of musical creativity: musicologies, discourses and others. Part II Creativity in the Iranian Context: Discourses and Structures: Discourses of creativity in Iranian classical music; Disciplining creativity: the radif of Iranian classical music. Part III Beyond Discourse: The Practice of Creativity: Creative performance in Iranian classical music; Postlude: ’Roots in the past and a view towards the future’: contemporary developments in Iranian classical music performance. Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Laudan Nooshin is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at City University London. She has research interests in contemporary developments in Iranian traditional and popular music, music and gender, globalization, music and cultural identity, and music in Iranian cinema. Her publications include Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (ed. Ashgate, 2009) and The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music (ed. Routledge, 2012). Between 2007 and 2011, Laudan was co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum (Routledge).