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.
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