Shāh Esmā'il and his Three Wives : A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan /

Shāh Esmā'il and his Three Wives : A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan /

This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other regi...

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Main Authors: Youssefzadeh, Ameneh (Author), Blum, Stephen (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Persian
Turkish

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Series: Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World ; 12.

Subjects:

Bards and bardism.
Folk music.
Romances, Persian.

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Call Number: GR291.2.T87

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Summary:This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other regions are performed wholly in a Turkic language with prose narration in Persian, Khorasani Turkish or Kurmanji Kurdish and most verses in Turkish. We compare portions of the full performance transcribed here with excerpts from two performances of Iranian bakhshis in the 1970s. Three introductory chapters and a commentary discuss musical and verbal dimensions of the bakhshi's art in relation to relevant social, historical, and literary contexts.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004471221
9789004471214