{"product_id":"representing-russias-orient-from-ethnography-to-art-song-hardcover","title":"Representing Russia's Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdalyat Issiyeva\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia, Russian intellectuals struggled with these questions that cut to the core of imperial identity. \u003cem\u003eRepresenting Russia's Orient\u003c\/em\u003e draws on political, cultural, and social history to tell the story of how Russia's imperial advancements and encounters with its southern and eastern neighbors influenced the development of Russian musical identity. While Russia's ethnic minorities, or \u003cem\u003einorodtsy\u003c\/em\u003e, were located at the geographical and cultural periphery, they loomed large in composers' musical imagination and became central to the definition of Russianness itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from previously untapped archival and published materials, including music scores, visual art, and ethnographies, author Adalyat Issiyeva offers an in-depth study of Russian musical engagement with oriental subjects. Within a complex matrix of politics, competing ideological currents, and social and cultural transformations, some Russian composers and writers developed multidimensional representations of oriental \"others\" and sometimes even embraced elements of Asian musical identity. Mapping the vast repertoire of \u003cem\u003ebylinas\u003c\/em\u003e, military and children songs, music ethnographies, rare collections of Asian folk songs, art songs inspired by Decembrist literature, and the art music of famous composers from the Mighty Five and their followers -- all set against the development of oriental studies in Russia -- the book sheds new light on how and why Russians sometimes rejected, sometimes absorbed and transformed elements of Asian history and culture in forging their own national identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdalyat Issiyeva\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches at McGill, Carleton, and Concordia Universities in Canada. She is the author of a number of articles on Russian Orientalism, including a recent contribution to \u003cem\u003eRimsky-Korsakov and His World\u003c\/em\u003e for the Bard Music Festival Book Series. Her research interests include Russian music, Orientalism, nationalism and identity formation, (music) ethnography, Central Asian music and culture, and the politics of representation. In addition to her academic career, she has represented Uighur traditional dance and songs at a number of folk festivals, including the Smithsonian Silk Road Festival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 430\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457921761533,"sku":"9780190051365","price":167.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Wmc4OEFxSmx2ZERKcXNpcVNaMnR6Zz09.webp?v=1777248877","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/representing-russias-orient-from-ethnography-to-art-song-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}