Representing Russia's Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song

ISBN-13: 9780190051365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 432 str.

Adalyat Issiyeva

Recenzje

This thoughtful, capacious, and interdisciplinary study rewards close and repeated reading. Meeting the contemporary moment, Representing Russia's Orient is among the most important studies of music in Imperial Russia-or music and empire more broadly-to appear in recent decades.

O autorze

Adalyat Issiyeva teaches at McGill, Carleton, and Concordia Universities in Canada. She is the author of a number of articles on Russian Orientalism, including a recent contribution to Rimsky-Korsakov and His World for the Bard Music Festival Book Series. Her research interests include Russian music, Orientalism, nationalism and identity formation, (music) ethnography, Central Asian music and culture, and the politics of representation. In addition to her academic career, she has represented Uighur traditional dance and songs at a number of folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Silk Road Festival.