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Informationen zum Autor Theodore Levin is Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative. He is the author of Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond (IUP, 2006) and The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (IUP, 1996). Saida Daukeyeva is a Georg Forster Research Fellow (HERMES) at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is author of Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi . Elmira Köchümkulova is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek. She is author of Respect Graces the Living, Lamentation Graces the Dead: Kyrgyz Funeral Lamentations (in Kyrgyz), and Kyrgyz Herders of Soviet Uzbekistan: Historical and Ethnographic Narratives (in Kyrgyz and English). Klappentext This beautiful and informative book offers a detailed introduction to the musical heritage of Central Asia for readers and listeners worldwide. Music of Central Asia balances "insider" and "outsider" perspectives with contributions by 27 authors from 14 countries. A companion website (www.musicofcentralasia.org) provides access to some 189 audio and video examples, listening guides and study questions, and transliterations and translations of the performed texts. This generously illustrated book is supplemented with boxes and sidebars, musician profiles, and an illustrated glossary of musical instruments, making it an indispensable resource for both general readers and specialists. In addition, the enhanced ebook edition, which is so comprehensive it had to be split into two ebooks, contains 180 audio and video examples of Central Asian music and culture. A follow-along feature highlights the song lyrics in the text, as the audio samples play. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Accessing Music Examples Online A Note on Music Terminology Guide to Transliteration Timeline of Central Asian History Part I: Music and Culture in Central Asia 1. Music in Central Asia: An Overview / Theodore Levin 2. Musical Instruments in Central Asia / Theodore Levin Part II: The Nomadic World Prologue: Who Are the Nomads of Central Asia? / Theodore Levin 3. Introduction to Oral Epic / Elmira Köchümkulova 4. The Epic Manas / Elmira Köchümkulova 5. Oral Epic in Kazakhstan: Körughly and a Dynasty of Great Jyrau s / Uljan Baibosynova 6. Music of the Karakalpaks Part I: The Epic World of the Karakalpaks: Jyrau and Baqsy / Frédéric Léotar Part II: Qyssakhan : Performer of Written and Oral Literature / Kalmurza Kurbanov and Saida Daukeyeva 7. The Art of the Turkmen Bagshy / Jamilya Gurbanova 8. The Turkmen Dutar / David Fossum 9. Kyrgyz Wisdom Songs: Terme Yrlary / Elmira Köchümkulova 10. Aqyn s and Improvised-Poetry Competitions among the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz / Elmira Köchümkulova and Jangül Qojakhmetova 11. Singing Traditions of the Kazakhs / Alma Kunanbeava 12. Kyrgyz Funeral Laments / Elmira Köchümkulova 13. Kyrgyz Wedding Songs / Elmira Köchümkulova 14. Narrative Instrumental Music: Kazakh Küi and Kyrgyz Küü / Sayra Raymbergenova and Nurlanbek Nyshanov Profile: Abdulhait Raiymbergenov / Theodore Levin Profile: Nurak Abdyrakhmanov / Elmira Köchümkulova 15. Kyrgyz Jaw Harps / Nurlanbek Nyshanov 16. The Kazakh Qobyz: Between Tradition and Modernity / Saida Daukeyeva 17. Dombyra Performance, Migration, and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs / Saida Daukeyeva Part III: The World of Sedentary-Dwellers Prologue: Patterns of Culture: Sedentary-Dwellers / Theodore Levin 18. Maqom Traditions of the Tajiks and Uzbeks / William Sumits and Theodore Levin
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Theodore Levin is Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative. He is the author of Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond (IUP, 2006) and The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (IUP, 1996).
Saida Daukeyeva is a Georg Forster Research Fellow (HERMES) at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is author of Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi.
Elmira Köchümkulova is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek. She is author of Respect Graces the Living, Lamentation Graces the Dead: Kyrgyz Funeral Lamentations (in Kyrgyz), and Kyrgyz Herders of Soviet Uzbekistan: Historical and Ethnographic Narratives (in Kyrgyz and English).
