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Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World - Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (Paperback)
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Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World - Essays in Honour of Owen Wright (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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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.
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