Intimate heritage: creating Uyghur Muqam song in Xinjiang

Over the past 50 years the Sufi poetry of the Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on world stages. This book compares the cultural materials, skills and contexts of traditional muqam performance with those...

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Main Author: Light, Nathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin [u.a.] Lit-Verl. 2008
Series:Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia 19
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Summary:Over the past 50 years the Sufi poetry of the Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on world stages. This book compares the cultural materials, skills and contexts of traditional muqam performance with those of the 'modern' repertoire.
Item Description:Zugl.: Diss.
Physical Description:X, 334 S. 24 cm
ISBN:9783825811204

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