London: MUSICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF CENTRAL ASIA

[Aziz Isa Elkun]

MUSICAL GEOGRAPHIES OF CENTRAL ASIA

International Conference and Concert
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study,
in association with  
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and
the Aga Khan Music Initiative, Aga Khan Trust for Culture

16–18 May 2012
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
 

PROGRAMME

Wednesday 16 May
 
 
9.15–9.45 am
 
Registration
 
9.45–10 am
Welcome by the organisers
 
10–11.30 am
Session 1: Musical landscapes of nomadic Central Asia: natural environment and national borders
Chair Keith Howard, SOAS
 
 
Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge
Nomads, States and Musical Landscapes: Some Dilemmas of Khöömii as Intangible Cultural Heritage
 
Stephanie Bunn, University of St Andrews
The Body and the Landscape in Kyrgyz Poetics: Topography Resonance and Image in Contemporary Kyrgyz Epic
 
Jennifer C. Post, New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University, Wellington
Kazakh Maps and Music: Claiming Space in the Mongolian Landscape
 
11.30–12 pm
Tea/coffee
 
12–1.30 pm
Session 2: Mapping the Turkic-Mongolian musical world: stylistic, historical and spiritual connections
Chair Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge
 
 
János Sipos, Franz Liszt Music Academy, Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
A Musical Map of the Turkic-speaking People
 
Valentina Suzukei, Tuvan Institute of Research in the Humanities
Turkic-Mongolian Music Traditions in the Modern Socio-Cultural Space
 
Bakhtiyar Amanzhol, Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory
Musical Instruments of Tengrianism
 
Gulzada Omarova, Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy
Geographical, Civilizational and Ethnohistorical Coordinates in the Music of Kazakhs
 
1.30–2.30 pm
Lunch
 
 
2.30–4 pm
Session 3: Traditional repertoires, Soviet canonisation projects and modern discourses of identity
Chair Martin Stokes, University of Oxford
 
 
Saida Daukeyeva, Institute of Musical Research
East vs West: Regional Styles of Dombyra Performance and their Representation in Music Practice and Discourse in Modern Kazakhstan
 
Megan M. Rancier, Bowling Green State University
Narratives of Ancientness and Kazakh Nationhood in the Music of the “Turan” Ensemble
David C. Fossum, Brown University
Musical Canons in Central Asia and Beyond: Insights from the Case of Turkmen Instrumental Music
 
4–4.30 pm
Tea/coffee
 
4.30–6 pm
Keynote address: Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College
Chair John Baily, Goldsmiths College
 
 
Thursday 17 May
 
 
10–11.30 am
 
Session 4: Classical art and folk music in Chinese Central Asia
Chair Rachel Harris, SOAS
 
 
Elise Anderson, Indiana University, Bloomington
Symbols of Identity, History, and Geography: Uyghur Music and the Arts in Twentieth-Century Xinjiang
 
Ablimit Baki, University of Manchester
Performing Dolan Identity through Dolan Meshrep in Xinjiang
tbc
 
11.30–12 pm
Tea/coffee
 
12–1.30 pm
Session 5: Constructing space and place through religious ritual performance: local identity, state ideology and global Islam
Chair Owen Wright, SOAS
 
 
Rachel Harris, SOAS
Musical-Religious Geographies of Rural Xinjiang
 
Giovanni De Zorzi, University ‘Ca’ Foscari’ of Venice
The Jâhri Concept in the Central Asian Area and its Implications in Sufism, Music and Therapy
 
Chorshanbe Goibnazarov, Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies
A Voice from the Pamir Mountain
 
1.30–2.30 pm
Lunch
 
 
2.30–4 pm
Session 6: Musical genres across regional and national borders: Afghanistan, the Indian Subcontinent and the Persian-speaking Central Asia
Chair Laudan Nooshin, City University
 
 
John Baily, Goldsmiths College
The Music-loving Amirs of Kabul, and the Development of an Afghan Art Music
 
Veronica Doubleday, University of Brighton
Transnationalism, Regionalism and a Sense of Place within Persian-language Chaharbeiti Quatrain Singing in Central Asia
 
Peter I. Klempner, University of Washington, Seattle
Falak: Raising Prayers to Heaven on Song
 
Friday 18 May
 
 
10–11.30 am
 
Session 7: Historical and contemporary soundscapes in urban and rural Central Asia
Chair Saida Daukeyeva, Institute of Musical Research
 
 
Alexander Djumaev, Composers’ Union of Uzbekistan
A Sound and Architectural Landscape of Old Bukhara and its Reflection in Musical Art
 
Djamilya Kurbanova, Turkmen National Conservatoire
Evolution of Musical Instruments within Local Performance Schools in Turkmenistan
 
Shakhym Gullyev, Iliyas Zhansugurov Zhetisu University
On Comparative Study of Traditional Musical Cultures: the Case of Azeri and Turkmen Song Repertoires
 
11.30–12 pm
Tea/coffee
 
12–1.30 pm
Session 8: Medieval and modern music practices at the crossroads of Central Asia, the Caucasus and Iran
tbc
 
 
Alla Bayramova, State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan
Legacy of Nizami Ganjavi as a Sourсe of Information on Musical Practices in Medieval Central Asia
 
Sanubar Baghirova, Institute of Architecture and Art, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
The Caucasus and Iran in the musical borders of the 18th-20th centuries
 
Anna C. Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University
Reimagining the Caucasus: Music and Community in the Azerbaijani Ashiq Tradition
 
1.30–2.30 pm
Lunch
 
 
2.30–4 pm
Session 9: Musical communities inside and outside Central Asia: vocabulary, and the semiology of performance and reception
Chair Alexander Knapp, SOAS
 
 
Guzel Saifullina, Kazan State Conservatory
What is “Tatar Maqam”?.. Tatar Musical Terminology in its Links to the Central Asian Culture
 
Helen M. Faller, Independent Researcher
Mong: Creating National Unity among Kazan Tatars
 
Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge
Insider-Outsider: Central Asian Music at Home and Abroad
 
4–4.30 pm
Tea/coffee
 
4.30–6 pm
Session 10: Central Asian musicians on the move: travel, migration and global circulation of neo-traditional and popular music
Chair Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge
 
 
Robert O. Beahrs, University of California, Berkeley
Transnational Khöömeizhi Circuits: Advocacy, Authority, and Tourism in Post-Soviet Tuvan Throat-Singing
 
Ariane Zevaco, Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, CNRS
Networks, Spaces and Representations: the Tajik, Persian, and Soviet Musician
 
Kerstin Klenke, University of Hildesheim
The World According to Uzbek Pop
 
7.30 pm
Concert of Central Asian Music
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
 
 
 
Conference registration fees (including teas/coffees and lunches):
 
Standard rate – £20 for one day / £60 for three days
 
Concessionary rate (students, retired, unwaged) – £10 / £30
 
For further details and bookings please contact [e-mail] (http://[e-mail]) or call 0207 664 4865.
 
 
 
Venue:
Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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