Iranian Classical Music

The Discourses and Practice of Creativity

Laudan Nooshin

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Routledge
12 February 2018

Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"; Social & cultural history

Series: SOAS Studies in Music

Questions of creativity, and particularly the processes which underlie creative performance or ’improvisation’, form some of the central areas of interest in current musicology. Yet the predominant discourses on which musicological thought in this area are based have rarely been challenged. In this book Laudan Nooshin interrogates musicological discourses of creativity from the perspective of critical theory and postcolonial studies, examining their ideological underpinnings, the relationships of alterity which they sustain, and the profound implications for our understanding of creative processes in music. The repertoire which forms the book’s main focus is Iranian classical music, a tradition in which the performer plays a central creative role. Addressing a number of issues regarding the nature of musical creativity, the author explores both the discourses through which ideas about creativity are constructed, exchanged and negotiated within this tradition, and the practice by which new music comes into being. For the latter she compares a number of performances by musicians playing a range of instruments and spanning a period of more than 30 years, focusing on one particular section of repertoire, dastgāh Segāh, and providing transcriptions of the performances as the basis for analytical exploration of the music’s underlying compositional principles. This book is about understanding musical creativity as a meaningful social practice. It is the first to examine the ways in which ideas about tradition, authenticity, innovation and modernity in Iranian classical music form part of a wider social discourse on creativity, and in particular how they inform debates regarding national and cultural identity.

By: Laudan Nooshin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781138489004
ISBN 10: 113848900X
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 February 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laudan Nooshin is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at City University London. She has research interests in contemporary developments in Iranian traditional and popular music, music and gender, globalization, music and cultural identity, and music in Iranian cinema. Her publications include Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (ed. Ashgate, 2009) and The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music (ed. Routledge, 2012). Between 2007 and 2011, Laudan was co-editor of Ethnomusicology Forum (Routledge).

Reviews for Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity

Winner of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) Book Prize, 2016. Winner of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) Book Prize, 2016. 'Iranian Classical Music is an important addition to the recent studies of music-making in related traditions. As a commendable example of scientific analysis that is theoretically grounded, the book will also appeal to a wider audience that is interested in the innate creativity of the human condition.' -- John Morgan O'Connell, Cardiff University, Oxford Journal