Music of a Thousand Years:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Music of a Thousand Years: "
Ann E. Lucas A. Seeger

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1103769
Doc. No	:	TLpq858229235
Main Entry	:	A. Seeger
	:	Ann E. Lucas
Title & Author	:	Music of a Thousand Years:\ Ann E. LucasA. Seeger
College	:	University of California, Los Angeles
Date	:	2010
student score	:	2010
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	491
Abstract	:	Despite its recent genesis and historically unique structure, music scholars often regard traditional Iranian music as having ancient origins among past musical practices of Persian-speaking peoples. This notion, however, is directly contradicted by premodern Persian music treatises, which describe a different music system dominating Persian music for over seven centuries before the modern system of traditional Iranian music emerged. In this dissertation, I seek to provide a more accurate understanding of music history in the Persian-speaking world by applying a systematic methodology for historiography to the study of these two distinct music systems. By employing a Foucauldian model of historiography, I establish a methodological basis to separate the modern system of Iranian music from the premodern musical world of Persian-speaking peoples. In explicating the distinct existence of both traditional Iranian music and the music system conceived of as its predecessor, I reveal the fundamental cultural differences underlying each system's distinct musical structure and application. I further connect these cultural differences to the two distinct cultural systems described by Benedict Anderson as separating modern and premodern societal formations: the religious community and dynastic realm that dominated the premodern musical life of Persian-speaking peoples, and the nation state that defined the musical reality of traditional Iranian music. In forwarding this study, I seek to explore more precise and systematic approaches to studying music history within the field of ethnomusicology while also investigating more accurate methodological approaches to the understanding the meaning of musical change.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts
	:	Ethnomusicology
	:	Iran
	:	Musical traditions
	:	Persia
	:	Social sciences