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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792500503321

Autore

Merchant Tanya

Titolo

Women musicians of Uzbekistan / / Tanya Merchant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-252-08106-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

New Perspectives on Gender in Music

Disciplina

780.82/09587

Soggetti

Women musicians - Uzbekistan

Feminism and music - Uzbekistan

Music - Social aspects - Uzbekistan

Music - Uzbekistan - 20th century - History and criticism

Music - Uzbekistan - 21st century - History and criticism

Uzbekistan Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond the canon : feminizing the national project through traditional music -- Ancient treasures, modernized : women's dutar ensembles and arranged folk music -- Like Tereshkova in the cosmos : women at the forefront of Western art music -- "Greetings to the Uzbek people!" : popular music in public and private settings -- Marrying past, present, and future : the essential work of wedding music -- Women's musical communities performing the nation.

Sommario/riassunto

Influences by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, this work 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, the text challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, the work notes the ways Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music.