Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World: Essays in Honour of Owen Wright

— —

Rachel Harris Martin Stokes

Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World

Essays in Honour of Owen Wright

Rachel Harris, Martin Stokes

$83.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Routledge
12 December 2019

Theory of music & musicology; Music: styles & genres

Series: SOAS Studies in Music

This volume of original essays is dedicated to Owen Wright in recognition of his formative contribution to the study of music in the Islamic Middle East. Wright’s work, which comprises, at the time of writing, six field-defining volumes and countless articles, has reconfigured the relationship between historical musicology and ethnomusicology. No account of the transformation of these fields in recent years can afford to ignore his work. Ranging across the Middle East, Central Asia and North India, this volume brings together historical, philological and ethnographic approaches. The contributors focus on collections of musical notation and song texts, on commercial and ethnographic recordings, on travellers’ reports and descriptions of instruments, on musical institutions and other spaces of musical performance. An introduction provides an overview and critical discussion of Wright’s major publications. The central chapters cover the geographical regions and historical periods addressed in Wright’s publications, with particular emphasis on Ottoman and Timurid legacies. Others discuss music in Greece, Iraq and Iran. Each explores historical continuities and discontinuities, and the constantly changing relationships between music theory and practice. An edited interview with Owen Wright concludes the book and provides a personal assessment of his scholarship and his approach to the history of the music of the Islamic Middle East. Extending the implications of Wright’s own work, this volume argues for an ethnomusicology of the Islamic Middle East in which past and present, text and performance are systematically in dialogue.

Edited by: Rachel Harris, Martin Stokes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367890308
ISBN 10: 0367890305
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction - Tuning the Past: The Work of Owen Wright Martin Stokes Part I: Ottoman Legacies 1 New Light on Cantemir Eckhard Neubauer 2 Towards a New Theory of Historical Change in the Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire Jacob Olley 3 Not Just Any Usul: Semai In Pre-Nineteenth-Century Performance Practice Mehmet Uğur Ekinci 4 Itri’s ‘Nühüft Sakil’ in the Context of Sakil Peşrevs in the Seventeenth Century Walter Feldman 5 Giambattista Toderini and the ‘Musica Turchesca’ Giovanni De Zorzi 6 At the House of Kemal: Private musical gatherings of Istanbul from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic Panagiotis C. Poulos 7 Kâr-ı Nev: Elongation and Elaboration in Recordings of a Turkish Classic John O’Connell 8 Measuring intervals between European and ‘Eastern’ musics in the 1920s: The curious case of the panharmonion or ‘Greek organ’ Eleni Kallimopoulou Part II: Historical and theoretical themes in the music of the Islamic world 9 ""Words Without Songs"": The social history of Hindustani song collections in India’s Muslim courts c.1770–1830 Katherine Butler Schofield 10 The music of the Timurids and its legacy in Afghanistan John Baily 11 Theory and practice in contemporary Central Asian maqām traditions: the Uyghur On Ikki Muqam and the Kashmiri Sūfyāna Musīqī Rachel Harris 12 The Terminology of Vocal Performance in Iranian Khorasan"

Rachel Harris is Reader in the Music of China and Central Asia at SOAS, University of London, UK. Her research interests include global musical flows, identity politics, gender, and ritual practice. She is the author of two books on musical life in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and co-editor of three books. She currently leads an AHRC Research Network and the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Sounding Islam in China’. She is actively engaged with outreach projects relating to Central Asian and Chinese music, including recordings, musical performance, and consultancy. Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London, UK. He has taught ethnomusicology at Queen's University Belfast, the University of Chicago, and Oxford. He is the author of The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (1992), and The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy and Turkish Popular Music (2010). His edited volumes include Ethnicity, Identity and Music (1994) and (with Karin Van Neiuwkerk and Mark Levine) Islam and Popular Culture (2015).