Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan: Performance and Belief
Third Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Music of the Turkic
Speaking World, 1-2 December, 2012, Cambridge, UK
Programme
Friday, 30th November
6 pm - Reception at Jesus College, University of Cambridge
7 pm - Opening Ceremony and Concert at Chapel, Jesus College
Saturday, 1st December
8:30-9 am - Registration
9-10:30 am - Keynote address: Professor Nicholas Cook (Faculty of
music, University of Cambridge)
"Western music as world music"
10:30-11 am - Tea & Coffee
11-12:30 pm - Session A1: Music in Afghanistan: Tradition and Modernity
Bernard Dupaigne, SNRS, Paris, France
Popular Music and Religion in Northern Afghanistan, in the 1966- 1976 Period
Will Summits, University of Central Asia, Tajikistan
The Tawarikh-i Musiqiyun: the post-humus popularization of musicians
from Afghanistan in a 19th century Chaghatai treatise
Yahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Music, Religion and Culture: a study of Traditional Turkic Music in Afghanistan
11-12:30 pm - Session A2: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
performances
János Sipos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
>From the Spiritual to the Profane and Back: the Relation of Folk
Religion and Folk Songs of Some Turkic People
Éva Csáki, Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Hungary
The Role of Music Performance of Bektashis Rituals in Thrace
Violetta Yunusova, Moscow State Conservatory, Russia
Popular Music Forms of Turkic Speaking Peoples in Russian Federation
12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm - Session B1: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
performances
Fattakh Khalig-zade, National Academy of Music, Baku, Azerbaijan
Islam and Music in Modern Azerbaijan
Janyl Jusupjan Chytyrbaeva, Radio Ozodlik, Prague, Czech Republic
New Religious Music in Kyrgyzstan
Ersen Varli, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Process of Popularity of Religious Musical Examples with the
Aspect of Performance Theory Among Women and Men: Music of Sunni and
Alevi Sects in Turkey (1)
Özlem Dogus Varli, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Mediums of Mysticism during the Process of Popularity in Sunni
Sect, Turkey (2)
1:30-3:30 pm - Session B2: From Ritualistic practices to traditional
performance
Yusuf Azmun, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Musical and Religious Aspects of Turkmen Carpets
Gennadiy Makarov, Kazan' State Conservatory, Tatarstan
Muslim spiritual poems as Tatar cultural phenomenon
Mahmud Aga Rahim Ogly Salah, Baku State conservatory, Azerbaijan
Daf-Qaval in Holy Books and Religious Ceremony
Zilya Imamutdinova, State Arts Study Institute, Moscow, Russia
The Transformation of Muslim Religious Musical Genres at the Beginning
of the 21st Century: Maulid in Culture of the Ural-Volga Tatars and Bashkirs
3:30-4 pm - Tea & Coffee
4-6 pm - Session C1: From Ritualistic practices to traditional performances
Saida Yelemanova, Kazakh National University of Arts
The Study of Kazakh music in its sacred and spiritual dimensions
Valentina Suzuki, Tuva Institute of Arts and Humanities
The Traditional and Popular music in Tuva
Alla Bairamova, The Azerbaijani State Museum of Musical Culture, Azerbaijan
Traditional Azerbaijani Music: Some Peculiarities of Modern Interpretation
Parmis Mozafari, University of Cambridge, UK
The Ritual Music of Turkmen of Iran
4-6 pm - Session C2: Diaspora and Minorities
Karina Firkaviciute, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Lithuania
Popular music in Lithuanian Karaim society - a different case
Abdullah Akat, Karadeniz State Conservatory, Turkey
The Influences and Changes of the Crimean Tatars Music in the Process
Shakhym Gullyev, Kysyl Orda, Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan
Turkmen traditional music at home and abroad
Dorit M Klebe, Berlin, Germany
The Role of Music among the Cultures of Turkic-Speaking Communities
(Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Tatars) in the Berlin Diaspora), 2006-2012
6-7 pm - Dinner
7 pm - Concert: Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan
Sunday, 2nd December
9-10:30 am - Keynote Address: Dr Alexander Djumaev
(University of Central Asia)
"Popular culture and music: in search of spiritual roots in changeable
Central Asia"
10:30-11 am - Tea & Coffee
11-12:30 pm - Session D1: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape
Tom Solomon, University of Bergen, Norway & Inna Naroditskyaya,
Northwestern University, USA
Azeri Rap Music and Oral Poetry between Tradition and Modernity
Megan Rancier, Bowling Green State University, USA
"The Sound of Modern Kazakh Nomads": Discourses of Ancientness and
Nationhood in the Music of Contemporary Kazakh Qyl-qobyz Performers
Angelika Jung, Galerie Mani, Weimar, Germany
Sufi ideas in the Music of Bukharan Shashmaqam
11-12:30 pm - Session D2: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape
Kerstin Klenke, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany
The Hajj Does not Go Pop: Uzbek estrada and Islam
Giovanni De Zorzi, University 'Ca' Foscari' of Venice, Italy
Jâhri zikr used as therapy for teenagers
Feza Tansug, Yeditepe University, Turkey
American Popular Music in Central Asia
12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30-3:30 pm - Session E1: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape
Ivanka Vlaeva, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Music Images of Istanbul: From Fatih Akin's Films to Stage and Street
Performances
Fikri Soysal, Dicle University State Conservatory Diyarbak?r, Turkey
Music Culture of Islam Civilization and Popular Culture in the 21st
Century in Turkey
Gulnar Abdirakhman, Kazakh National University of Arts
New images of Kazakh traditional songs
Valeriya Nedlina, Kazakh State Conservatory, Kazakhstan
Folklorismus in Popular Music of Kazakhstan: Returning to Spiritual Roots
1:30-3:30 pm - Session E2: Traditional culture in contemporary soundscape
Liesbet Nyssen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Khuday, Khay, and Khuray: Connections to Religion in Khakas Popular Music
Aziza Sadikova, Berlin, Germany
New music technique and Koran recitation: "Untitled", the piece for
amplified violoncello and tape
Vladimir Manyakin, Kazakh National University of Arts
Kazakh Folk Songs: From Preservation to Transformation and Development
Gulya Kuzbakova, Kazakh National University of Arts
Kazakh Popular Music in 1990-2010: Metamorphosis of Development
3:30-4 pm - Tea & Coffee
4-6 pm - Session F: Film Screening
John Baily, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Return of the Nightingales: The Afghanistan National Institute of Music
Razia Sultanova, University of Cambridge, UK
The Music of minorities in Northern Afghanistan
Keith Howard and Misha Maltsev, London, UK
Siberia at the Centre of the World: Music, Dance and Ritual in Sakha-Yakutia
Book Presentations
There will be recently published book presentations during the
conference's Tea breaks by the following scholars: John Baily, Keith
Howard, Fattah Khalyk-Zade, Janos Sipos/Eva Csaki, Tom Solomon, Inna
Naroditskaya, Razia Sultanova, Valentina Suzuki, Galina Sythenko,
Saida Yelemanova, Giovanni De Zorzi
Visual art Exhibition
"Musical instruments of the Turkic speaking world"
by Elena Tchibor (Oxford University)
Convener of the Symposium: Dr Razia Sultanova r588@cam.ac.uk
Symposium Assistant: Dr Parmis Mozafari: parmis_m@hotmail.com
