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This book explores Azerbaijanian musical culture, a subject previously unexamined by American and European scholars. This book contains notations of "mugham" performance-a fusion of traditional poetry and musical improvisation-and analysis of hybrid genres, such as "mugham"-operas and symphonic "mugham" by native composers. Intimately connected to the awakening of Azerbaijanian national consciousness while ruled by the Russian Empire and the USSR, "mugham" is inseparable from the contexts in which it is produced and heard. Inna Naroditskaya provides the historical and political contexts for "mugham" and profiles the musicians, musical genealogies, and musical institutions of Azerbaijan.

LIST OF FIGURES ...ix
LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES ...xi
SELECTIONS ON COMPACT DISC ...xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...xv
PREFACE ...xix
CHAPTER 1 Split Identity: The Historical and Literary Heritage of Azerbaijan ...3
CHAPTER 2 "Mugham Is Not Music": The Complex Aesthetics of Islam ...19
CHAPTER 3 "A Wave of Melodious Sound": The Basics of Mugham ...31
CHAPTER 4 The Sound of Traditional Mugham ...53
CHAPTER 5 The Modernization/Westernization of Mugham 91
CHAPTER 6 Mugham Lineages: Fathers and Sons, Masters and Disciples ...111
CHAPTER 7 Symphonic Mugham ...139
CHAPTER 8 Women's Voices Defying and Defining the Culture ...163
CHAPTER 9 Conclusion: Mugham as Signifier ...191
CHAPTER 10 Travel Notes: 1997 and 2002 ...205
GLOSSARY ...221
NOTES ...225
BIBLIOGRAPHY ...239
INDEX ...255