Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

Ann E. Lucas

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Published
3 December 2019
Pages
288
ISBN
9780520300804

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions

Ann E. Lucas

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Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history.

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