The Art Of Avaz And Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Author : Rob Simms
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172123
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian written by Rob Simms and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts, by Rob Simms and Amir Koushkani, examines the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry, as represented by its greatest living exponent. This in-depth study surveys the social and historical context of the twentieth-century tradition of avaz while placing Shajarian’s early career within this complex culture, from being a child prodigy of Qur’an recitation in Mashhad to his rise to national prominence in the 1970s. As a globetrotting celebrity who is renowned for singing medieval poetry with impeccable technique and radiant inspiration, Shajarian’s life and work provide a compelling case study for larger issues of reconciling tradition and modernity, and the crucial role of the individual in maintaining and renovating traditional art forms. Avaz is discussed in the broader context of Iranian narrative performance traditions, where the performer retells well-known scripts in a way that is appropriate to the audience and the present occasion, spinning the tale to convey a personal message. Shajarian’s career also exemplifies the huge changes that Iranian musical culture underwent in the 1960s and 70s. Finally, the study includes a detailed examination of the materials and creative processes of Shajarian’s artistic craft, including his acquisition process and training, vocal technique, selection and treatment of poetry, use of traditional musical materials, and his balance of engaging preset materials with improvisation. The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian is an impressively detailed study of the music, life, and environment of the most influential musician in Iranian classical music of the past three decades.

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Total Pages : 309 pages
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Author : Rob Simms
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172093
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mohammad Reza Shajarian's Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979-2010 written by Rob Simms and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohammad Reza Shajarian's Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979-2010 is a comprehensive study of the legacy of Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the greatest living exponent of avaz, the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry. Focusing on Shajarian's career after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the study includes a detailed examination of the landmark recordings that established him as a national and then global icon of refined Persian culture, artistic excellence, and courageous political resistance.

Author : Robert Simms
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780612190344
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avaz in the Recordings of Mohammed Reza Shajarian written by Robert Simms and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1996 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lloyd Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415617286
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Song in Persia written by Lloyd Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length analysis of the theory and practice of Persian singing, demonstrating the centrality of Persian elements in the music of the Islamic Middle Ages, their relevance to both contemporary and traditional Iranian music and their interaction with classical Persian poetry and metrics.

Author : Rob Simms
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739172107
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mohammad Reza Shajarian's Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979–2010 written by Rob Simms and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohammad Reza Shajarian’s Avaz in Iran and Beyond, 1979–2010 is a comprehensive study of the legacy of Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the greatest living exponent of avaz, the traditional art of singing classical Persian poetry. Picking up where the authors’ previous volume (The Art of Avaz and Mohammad Reza Shajarian: Foundations and Contexts) left off, this study examines the landmark recordings Shajarian made following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 as artistic masterpieces of avaz and as shrewd, mass-mediated expressions of frustration and dissent that boldly crystallized public sentiments under highly repressive conditions. These recordings transformed Shajarian into a national icon in Iran and through the diaspora. The book traces the subsequent expansion of Shajarian’s music and presence in ever-widening circles to his current global profile, powerfully underlined by his receipt of prestigious awards from UNESCO and other global institutions. Shajarian’s artistic accomplishments, including his recent activity in designing and crafting a range of new stringed instruments, and socio-political significance are placed in the broader context of Iranian musical culture in the decades following the Revolution. In surveying Shajarian’s legacy, this study concludes with questions arising from the Election Crisis of 2009—where he was popularly proclaimed as “Master of the Green Movement” (Ostad-e Sabz) for his outspoken opposition to the violent crackdown—the subsequent political stalemate, and how these dynamics resonate with issues of the present state and relevance of Persian classical music in the twenty-first century. This book forms the conclusion of the most detailed study to date of the music, life, and environment of the most influential musician in Iranian classical music of the past three decades.

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Author : Michael Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843837269
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Classical Musics written by Michael Church and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.

Author : Laudan Nooshin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351926233
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iranian Classical Music written by Laudan Nooshin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of creativity, and particularly the processes which underlie creative performance or ’improvisation’, form some of the central areas of interest in current musicology. Yet the predominant discourses on which musicological thought in this area are based have rarely been challenged. In this book Laudan Nooshin interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings, the relationships of alterity which they sustain, and the profound implications for our understanding of creative processes in music. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practice by which new music comes into being. For the latter she compares a number of performances by musicians playing a range of instruments and spanning a period of more than 30 years, focusing on one particular section of repertoire, dastgāh Segāh, and providing transcriptions of the performances as the basis for analytical exploration of the music’s underlying compositional principles. This book is about understanding musical creativity as a meaningful social practice. It is the first to examine the ways in which ideas about tradition, authenticity, innovation and modernity in Iranian classical music form part of a wider social discourse on creativity, and in particular how they inform debates regarding national and cultural identity.

Author : Ameneh Youssefzadeh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004471227
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shāh Esmā‘il and his Three Wives written by Ameneh Youssefzadeh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full text and translation, with commentary, of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards, the first to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse.