Women Musicians of Uzbekistan
ebook ∣ From Courtyard to Conservatory · New Perspectives on Gender in Music
By Tanya Merchant
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Fascinated by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, Tanya Merchant ventures into Tashkent's post-Soviet music scene to place women musicians within the nation's evolving artistic and political arenas.
Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Merchant's recounting of the women's experiences, stories, and memories underscores the complex role that these musicians and vocalists play in educational institutions and concert halls, street kiosks and the culturally essential sphere of wedding music. Throughout the book, Merchant ties nationalism and femininity to performances and reveals how the music of these women is linked to a burgeoning national identity.
Important and revelatory, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan looks into music's part in constructing gendered national identity and the complicated role of femininity in a former Soviet republic's national project.
| Cover Title Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Stories Women Tell about Their Music 1. Beyond the Canon: Feminizing the National Project through Traditional Music 2. Ancient Treasures, Modernized: Women's Dutar Ensembles and Arranged Folk Music 3. Like Tereshkova in the Cosmos: Women at the Forefront of Western Art Music 4. "Greetings to the Uzbek People!": Popular Music in Public and Private Settings 5. Marrying Past, Present, and Future: The Essential Work of Wedding Music Conclusion: Women's Musical Communities Performing the Nation Notes Glossary Works Cited Index | "Merchant offers a nuanced, intelligent understanding of the relationship between gender and musical culture in contemporary Uzbeck society. In addressing the place of women in the musical life of the country, she throws light not only on the music but also on how the music has negotiated and contributed to the historical dynamic that has existed since the Soviet Union annexed Uzbekistan... A valuable resource for those interested in anthropology, Central Asian studies, gender studies... Highly recommended."—Choice
"Readable and useful not only to those interested in the legacies of Soviet rule, but also to ethnomusicologists and scholars interested in gender issues."—Journal of Folklore Research
"A beautifully textured account of contemporary Uzbekistan's national project, and the central role of women musicians in this construction. . . . Filled with interesting and timely material, this book is truly a wonderful read."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology
|Tanya Merchant is an assistant professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent genres: maqom, folk music, Western art music, and popular music. Merchant's recounting of the women's experiences, stories, and memories underscores the complex role that these musicians and vocalists play in educational institutions and concert halls, street kiosks and the culturally essential sphere of wedding music. Throughout the book, Merchant ties nationalism and femininity to performances and reveals how the music of these women is linked to a burgeoning national identity.
Important and revelatory, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan looks into music's part in constructing gendered national identity and the complicated role of femininity in a former Soviet republic's national project.
| Cover Title Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Stories Women Tell about Their Music 1. Beyond the Canon: Feminizing the National Project through Traditional Music 2. Ancient Treasures, Modernized: Women's Dutar Ensembles and Arranged Folk Music 3. Like Tereshkova in the Cosmos: Women at the Forefront of Western Art Music 4. "Greetings to the Uzbek People!": Popular Music in Public and Private Settings 5. Marrying Past, Present, and Future: The Essential Work of Wedding Music Conclusion: Women's Musical Communities Performing the Nation Notes Glossary Works Cited Index | "Merchant offers a nuanced, intelligent understanding of the relationship between gender and musical culture in contemporary Uzbeck society. In addressing the place of women in the musical life of the country, she throws light not only on the music but also on how the music has negotiated and contributed to the historical dynamic that has existed since the Soviet Union annexed Uzbekistan... A valuable resource for those interested in anthropology, Central Asian studies, gender studies... Highly recommended."—Choice
"Readable and useful not only to those interested in the legacies of Soviet rule, but also to ethnomusicologists and scholars interested in gender issues."—Journal of Folklore Research
"A beautifully textured account of contemporary Uzbekistan's national project, and the central role of women musicians in this construction. . . . Filled with interesting and timely material, this book is truly a wonderful read."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology
|Tanya Merchant is an assistant professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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