Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan

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