SOSYOLOJİ DERGİSİ TURKISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
Received: February 22, 2017 Revision received: May 8, 2017 Copyright © 2017 Istanbul University Department of Sociology Accept: June 24, 2017 tjs.istanbul.edu.tr/en OnlineFirst: November 30, 2017 DOI 10.26650/TJS.2017.2.0008 December 2017 37(2) 393–416
Original Article
A Typological Perspective of Artistic Tendencies in the Field of Persian Classical Music in the 21st Century
Arash Mohafez1
Abstract The present article tries to make a study on the panorama of Persian classical music in contemporary Iranian society, proposing an original anthropological-ethnomusicological typology of its varied artistic tendencies. For this purpose, it reminds, first of all, some of the most important phenomenon or facts in the history of Persian classical music in the twentieth century. Then, it identifies and categorizes the characteristics of seven big contemporary tendencies among the most active and influential ones in the domain of Persian classical music, in the form of a continuum. The essential criterion of distinction of these tendencies in article shows that none of these seven big tendencies is occupied with the questions like revivification of from 2005, a new and growing “neoclassical movement” is born in the Persian classical panorama, which corresponds to an eclectic opening towards neighboring musical cultures and to an intention of reviving the lost elements of ancient Persian music in the contemporary practice.
Keywords Metric / Non-Metric Composition and Interpretation