Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Möchten Sie über diese Zeitschrift informiert bleiben? Klicken Sie bitte auf die Buttons, um unsere Alerts zu abonnieren.
Reinventing Ruhowzi
Experiments in Contemporary Iranian Musical Theater
in Middle East Journal of Culture and CommunicationSearch for other papers by Erum Naqvi in
Current site
Google Scholar
Abstract
In the last few years, Tehran’s arts culture has seen the re-emergence of a thriving theater scene, including experimentation with various performance practices that were restricted in public forums for several years. In this article, I address a 2017 production called Gonbadgah which is a choreographed regional ethnic dance interwoven with classical music and staged as a story inspired by ruhowzi, the erstwhile cabaret theater of early twentieth-century Iran. Offering a genealogy of ruhowzi that traces its artists from from elite performers with royal patronage to low-brow urban entertainers in Pahlavi-era Iran, in this article I situate Gonbadgah as a production that aims to revisit the art form (one that much of today’s youth culture considers dated), and reframe it, leveraging the canon of ‘high’ classical music. As such, the production aims to cut across established musical hierarchies to offer a more egalitarian view of traditional arts for contemporary audiences.
Kauf
Sofortzugang erwerben (PDF-Download und unbegrenzter Online-Zugang):
Institutszugang
Melden Sie sich mit Open Athens, Shibboleth oder Ihren institutionellen Anmeldedaten an.
Persönliche Anmeldung
Melden Sie sich mit Ihrem brill.com-Konto an
-
Auliffe, Sarah (2011). Popular Music and Memory Construction in Iranian Diasporic Contexts. Context 35 (4): 55–72.
-
Azod al-Dowleh, Soltan Ahmad Mirza (2014.) Tarikh-e ʿAzodi: Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs. Manoutcher M. Eskandari-Qajar (trans. and ed.). Washington, DC: Mage Publishers.
-
Baghoolizadeh, Beeta (2018). Seeing Race and Erasing Slavery: Media and the Construction of Blackness in Iran, 1830–1960. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
-
Bauer, Janet (2010). Accented Margins: Gendering the Borders of Diaspora. In Jane Aaron, Henrice Altnik, and Chris Weedon (eds.), Gendering Border Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
-
Beeman, W.O. (2011). Iranian Performance Traditions: Keys to Iranian Culture. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publications.
-
Breyley, G.J. (2010). Hope, Fear and Dance Dance Dance: Popular Music in 1960s Iran. Musicology Australia 32 (2): 203–226.
-
Breyley, G.J. and Sasan Fatemi (2016). Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond. New York: Routledge.
-
Cooke, Peter (1992). The Violin—Instrument of Four Continents. In Robin Stowell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Violin, pp. 234–248. New York: Cambridge University Press.
-
Dastgam Association (2016). Gonbadgah. Tehran. [Program notes]
-
During, Jean (2001). Tombak. In Deane Root (ed.). Oxford Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. Accessed 5 February 2018: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
-
During, Jean, Zia Mirabdolbahi and Dariush Safvat (1991). The Art of Persian Music. Washington, DC: Mage Publishers.
-
During, Jean, and Alistair Dick (2001). Setār. In Deane Root (ed.). Oxford Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. Accessed 5 February 2018: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
-
During, Jean, Robert Atayan, Johanna Spector, Scheherazade Qassim Hassan and R. Conway Morris (2001). Kamāncheh. In Deane Root (ed.), Oxford Music Online. New York: Oxford University Press. Accessed 5 February 2018. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
-
Ehlers, Eckart and Willem Floor (1993). Urban Change in Iran, 1920–1941. Iranian Studies 26: (3–4): 251–275.
-
Farhat, Hormoz (1990). The Dastgāh Concept in Persian Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Fatemi, Sasan (2005). Music, Festivity, and Gender in Iran from the Qajar to the Early Pahlavi Period. Iranian Studies 38 (3): 399–416.
-
Gerson-Kiwi, Edith (1963). The Persian Doctrine of Dastgāh Composition. Tel Aviv: Israel Music Institute.
-
Jafari, Narges Zaker, and Parisa Arvand (2016). The Function of Education in Codification of Radif in Iranian Dastgahi Music. Journal of Literature and Art Studies 6 (1): 74–81.
-
Jahid, Parviz (ed.) (2012). Directory of World Cinema: Iran. Bristol: Intellect Books.
-
Mashoon, Hasan (2001). Tarikh-e Musighi-e Iran [The History of Persian Music]. Tehran: Farhang-e Nashr-e Now.
-
Meftahi, Ida (2016). Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage. New York: Routledge.
-
Miller, Lloyd (1991). Music and Song in Persia: The Art of Avaz. London: Curzon.
-
Naqvi, Erum (2012). Teaching Practices in Persian Art Music. In Wayne Bowman and Ana Lucia Frega (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, pp. 180–191. New York: Oxford University Press.
-
Naqvi, Erum (2017). Gigging ‘Classical’ in Iran. Popular Communication 15 (3): 221–232.
-
Nettl, Bruno (1974). Aspects of Form in the Instrumental Performance of the Persian Avaz. Ethnomusicology 18 (3): 405–414.
-
Nettl, Bruno (1992). The Radif of Persian Music. Champaign: Elephant and Cat.
-
Nettl, Bruno (2002). Encounters in Ethnomusicology: A Memoir. Warren: Harmonie Park Press.
-
Nettl, Bruno (2005). The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
-
Nettl, Bruno (2009). On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran. In Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl (eds.), Musical Improvisation: Art, Education and Society, pp. 185–199. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
-
Nettl, Bruno (2013). Becoming an Ethnomusicologist: A Miscellany of Influences. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (1998). The Song of the Nightingale: Processes of Improvisation in Dastgāh Segāh (Iranian Classical Music). British Journal of Ethnomusicology 7: 69–116.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (1999). The Art of Ornament. In Mark Ellingham, Orla Duane and Vanessa Dowell (eds.), World Music: The Rough Guide: Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, pp. 355–363. London: Penguin.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (2005a). Subversion and Countersubversion: Power Control and Meaning in New Iranian Pop Music. In Annie J. Randall (ed.), Music, Power, and Politics, pp. 231–272. New York: Routledge.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (2005b). Underground, Overground: Rock Music and Youth Discourses in Iran. Iranian Studies 38 (3): 463–494.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (2014). Two Revivalist Moments in Iranian Classical Music. In Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival, pp. 275–297. New York: Oxford University Press.
-
Nooshin, Laudan (2015). Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practices of Creativity. London: Ashgate.
-
Reyes, Angelita D. (2018). Performativity and Representation in Transnational Blackface: Mammy (USA), Zwarte Piet (Netherlands), and Haji Firuz (Iran). Atlantic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2018.1490508.
-
Rubin, Don, Chua Soo Pong, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Minoru Tanokura, and Katherine Brisbane (eds.) (2005). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 5. New York: Routledge.
-
Sarshah, Houman (2012). Judeo-Persian Communities xi. Music (2). Encyclopaedia IranicaXV/2, 163–172; online http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/judeo-persian-comms-xi-2-specific-topics, accessed 15 November 2017.
-
Selenick, Laurence (1992). Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts. Lebanon: University Press of New England.
-
Semati, Mehdi (2017). ‘Sounds like Iran: On Popular Music of Iran’. Popular Communication 15 (3): 155–162.
-
Siamdoust, Nahid (2017). Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
-
Shay, Anthony (2016). Iranian Music and Popular Entertainment: From Motrebi to Losanjelesi and Beyond, pp. 14–41. New York: Routledge.
-
Shay, Anthony (2000). Six-Eight Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music from ‘Bazm-e Qajjariyyeh’ to ‘Beverly Hills Garden Party’. In Walter Armbrust (ed.), Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in a Transregional World, pp. 61–87. Berkeley: University of California Press.
-
Tala’i, Dariush (2000). Traditional Iranian Classical Music: The Radif of Mirza Abdollah. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers.
-
Talajool, Saeed (2011). Indigenous Performing Traditions in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theater. Iranian Studies 44 (4): 497–519.
-
Talatoff, Kamran (2011). Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
-
Zonis, Ella (1973). Classical Persian Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 906 | 67 | 2 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 34 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 63 | 3 | 0 |
Reinventing Ruhowzi
Experiments in Contemporary Iranian Musical Theater
in Middle East Journal of Culture and CommunicationSearch for other papers by Erum Naqvi in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
In the last few years, Tehran’s arts culture has seen the re-emergence of a thriving theater scene, including experimentation with various performance practices that were restricted in public forums for several years. In this article, I address a 2017 production called Gonbadgah which is a choreographed regional ethnic dance interwoven with classical music and staged as a story inspired by ruhowzi, the erstwhile cabaret theater of early twentieth-century Iran. Offering a genealogy of ruhowzi that traces its artists from from elite performers with royal patronage to low-brow urban entertainers in Pahlavi-era Iran, in this article I situate Gonbadgah as a production that aims to revisit the art form (one that much of today’s youth culture considers dated), and reframe it, leveraging the canon of ‘high’ classical music. As such, the production aims to cut across established musical hierarchies to offer a more egalitarian view of traditional arts for contemporary audiences.
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 906 | 67 | 2 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 34 | 1 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 63 | 3 | 0 |
