The Music Road Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India

by Strohm, Reinhard

• ISBN13: 9780197266564
• ISBN10: 0197266568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-10-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Music Road contains contributions on musical cultures from the Mediterranean to India which brings together historical research, philology, and ethnographic fieldwork to revive the differentiated voices of this world region. It is here referred to as "the Music Road", to emphasize the musical traditions in this western half of the "Silk Road", and the transitional nature of its cultural migrations and coherences.

Mobility in space, transmission in time and "the East-West imagination" are demonstrated in the following historical cultures: Ancient Gandhar? (N.W. India, first centuries CE) and the tradition of Alexander's conquest; sections on "Intercultural Islam" from medieval Persia to modern Turkey; "Indian encounters" with the West - and vice versa - in music and dance (18th-20th centuries); Greek music and theatre as a bridge between East and West; and Gypsy musical styles in European nationalist music.

Author Biography

Richard Strohm has studied musicology, violin, Latin and Italian literature in Munich, Pisa, Milan and Berlin. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Technical University, Berlin he has had a distinguished career in musicology. From 1975 until 1983 he was a Lecturer in Music, and then Reader, at King's College, London before being appointed as Professor of Musicology at Yale, a post he held for seven years. Returning to KCL in 1991 he then moved to Oxford in 1996, where he was the Hether Professor of Music until he retired in 2007. Throughout his career he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Chicago, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Budapest (Liszt Academy), and Hamburg. He has published a range of titles on topics such as European music in the 14th-19th centuries, the history of opera, criticism of musicology, and global music history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Music Road: an expedition across time and space, Reinhard Strohm
Keynote
2. The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective, Martin Stokes
Alexandrian Tracks
3. Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus, Gabriela Currie
4. Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra, Ciro Lo Muzio
5. Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries), Donatella Restani
Intercultural Islam
6. Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism, Andrew Hicks
7. Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries, Lisa Nielson
8. Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.), Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek
9. Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide, Owen Wright
10. Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey, Kevin Dawe
Indian Encounters
11. 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadere: The Indian dance as musical nexus, Margaret Walker
12. Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body', Nalini Ghuman
Hellas between West and East
13. The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century, Katy Romanou
14. A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century), Walter Puchner
15. Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands, Kostas Kardamis
16. European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East, Avra Xepapadakou
A Gypsy Epilogue
17. From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody', Anna G. Piotrowska
General bibliography
Index