Intimate Heritage : Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang

• Over the past fifty years a project of culturally reflexive ethnic self-definition has transformed the Sufi poetry of the Uyghur muqam song tradition into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on world stages. This book compares the cultural materials, skills, and contexts of traditional muqam performance with those of the `modern' repertoire. Uyghur editors - politicians, scholars, and musicians - have revised this repertoire and created historical discourses around it that reflect new concepts of nationhood and ethnicity. In the muqams they have created a public representation used to promote Uyghur claims to an original, autochthonous piece of world cultural history and a dignified, shared identity. Light's ethnographic study of cultural reflexivity breaks new ground in understanding how the editing project relates to the ethnic politics of cultural intimacy around Sufism, gender, love, oral performance, language, and poetry.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora och konst -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

cultural heritage

traditional music

Uyghur

Uighur

folk literature

folk song

China

folk poetry

Historia

History

Kulturantropologi

Cultural Anthropology

Turkic languages

Turkiska språk

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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bok (ämneskategori)