Representing Russia's Orient - From Ethnography to Art Song (Hardcover)

What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia, Russian intellectuals struggled with these questions that cut to the core of imperial identity. Representing Russia's Orient draws on political, cultural, and social history to tell the story of how Russia's imperial advancements and encounters with its southern and eastern neighbors influenced the development of Russian musical identity. While Russia's ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, were located at the geographical and cultural periphery, they loomed large in composers' musical imagination and became central to the definition of Russianness itself. Drawing from previously untapped archival and published materials, including music scores, visual art, and ethnographies, author Adalyat Issiyeva offers an in-depth study of Russian musical engagement with oriental subjects. Within a complex matrix of politics, competing ideological currents, and social and cultural transformations, some Russian composers and writers developed multidimensional representations of oriental "others" and sometimes even embraced elements of Asian musical identity. Mapping the vast repertoire of bylinas, military and children songs, music ethnographies, rare collections of Asian folk songs, art songs inspired by Decembrist literature, and the art music of famous composers from the Mighty Five and their followers - all set against the development of oriental studies in Russia - the book sheds new light on how and why Russians sometimes rejected, sometimes absorbed and transformed elements of Asian history and culture in forging their own national identity.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	AMS STUDIES IN MUSIC SERIES
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Adalyat Issiyeva (Lecturer)
Dimensions:	243 x 163 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-005136-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-19-005136-1
Barcode:	9780190051365

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