Shāh Esmā'il and His Three Wives: A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Stephen BlumSeries:Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate WoTheme:Cultural Region/Asian, Cultural Region/Middle EasternPublish date:11/18/2021Pages:246
This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other regions are performed wholly in a Turkic language with prose narration in Persian, Khorasani Turkish or Kurmanji Kurdish and most verses in Turkish. We compare portions of the full performance transcribed here with excerpts from two performances of Iranian bakhshis in the 1970s. Three introductory chapters and a commentary discuss musical and verbal dimensions of the bakhshi's art in relation to relevant social, historical, and literary contexts.
Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Ph.D. (1997), Nanterre University, is co-consulting editor of music at Encyclopaedia Iranica (New York). Her publications include several articles, book chapters, CDs, and a monograph, Les bardes du Khorassan iranien: le bakhshi et son répertoire (Paris 2002).
Stephen Blum is Professor of Music Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His publications deal with general topics (composition, improvisation, modern music history, cultural interaction) and with specific musical practices of Iran, Kurdistan, Europe, and North America.
Stephen Blum is Professor of Music Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His publications deal with general topics (composition, improvisation, modern music history, cultural interaction) and with specific musical practices of Iran, Kurdistan, Europe, and North America.
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