Women Musicians of Uzbekistan

Women Musicians of Uzbekistan
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780252097638
ISBN-13 : 0252097637
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Book Synopsis Women Musicians of Uzbekistan by : Tanya Merchant

Download or read book Women Musicians of Uzbekistan written by Tanya Merchant and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, Tanya Merchant 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, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Merchant's recounting of the women's experiences, stories, and memories underscores the complex role that these musicians and vocalists play in educational institutions and concert halls, street kiosks and the culturally essential sphere of wedding music. Throughout the book, Merchant ties nationalism and femininity to performances and reveals how the music of these women is linked to a burgeoning national identity. Important and revelatory, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan looks into music's part in constructing gendered national identity and the complicated role of femininity in a former Soviet republic's national project.


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