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The Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Reinhard Strohm: The Music Road: an expedition across time and space
- Keynote
- 2: Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective
- Alexandrian Tracks
- 3: Gabriela Currie: Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus
- 4: Ciro Lo Muzio: Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra
- 5: Donatella Restani: Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries)
- Intercultural Islam
- 6: Andrew Hicks: Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism
- 7: Lisa Nielson: Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries
- 8: Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek: Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.)
- 9: Owen Wright: Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide
- 10: Kevin Dawe: Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey
- Indian Encounters
- 11: Margaret Walker: 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadère: The Indian dance as musical nexus
- 12: Nalini Ghuman: Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body'
- Hellas between West and East
- 13: Katy Romanou: The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century
- 14: Walter Puchner: A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century)
- 15: Kostas Kardamis: Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands
- 16: Avra Xepapadakou: European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East
- A Gypsy Epilogue
- 17: Anna G. Piotrowska: From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody'
- General bibliography
- Index
About the author
Richard Strohm has studied musicology, violin, Latin and Italian literature in Munich, Pisa, Milan and Berlin. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Technical University, Berlin he has had a distinguished career in musicology. From 1975 until 1983 he was a Lecturer in Music, and then Reader, at King's College, London before being appointed as Professor of Musicology at Yale, a post he held for seven years. Returning to KCL in 1991 he then moved to Oxford in 1996, where he was the Hether Professor of Music until he retired in 2007. Throughout his career he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Chicago, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Budapest (Liszt Academy), and Hamburg. He has published a range of titles on topics such as European music in the 14th-19th centuries, the history of opera, criticism of musicology, and global music history.
Summary
The Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.
