{"id":225,"date":"2021-03-05T18:17:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T09:52:15","slug":"peoples-and-musics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/","title":{"rendered":"Peoples and Musics &#8211; Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/\">Caucasus <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\">Azeri<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Population: ca. 30-35 million<\/p>\n<p>Mainly resides in: Azerbaijan, Iran<\/p>\n<p>Main Religion: Shia Islam<\/p>\n<p>Language: Azerbaijan (Turkic language)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Azeri people are the descendants of a tribe of Turkic people called the Oghuz Turks, who migrated from Central Asia into the Caucasus and Northwestern Iran<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">,<\/span> and converted to Shia Islam in the 13th century, and subsequently mixed with local Caucasians. They lived under the rule of various Turkic tribes until they established the Safavid Empire that ruled over Iran in the 16th century. In the 20th century, the Caucasian Azeri territory became a republic under the Soviet Union in the 20th century, and achieved independence after the Soviet collapse. The Iranian Azeri territory remained as Iranian provinces.<\/li>\n<li>While Azerbaijan is known as the \u201cland of fire\u201d due to its plentiful supply of oil and natural gas allowing for \u201ceternal flames\u201d in many natural and religious landmarks, this description also reflects the character of much of Azeri traditional expressive culture: fiery and passionate traditional music and dances that celebrate valiance and heroism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The classical music of the Azeris is the mugham, a system of organising virtuosic free-rhythm singing of poetry celebrating love according to Sufism, the Islamic mystical practice, as well as rhythmic instrumental pieces into a high-energy musical journey through different modes that gives the music varied distinctive colours. Mugham is typically performed by a trio with a singer who also plays the frame drum qaval (very similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/musical-instruments\/central-asian-dap\/\">Central Asian Dap<\/a>), the bowed fiddle kaman\u00e7a (a close relative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/musical-instruments\/persian-kamancheh\/\">Persian kamancheh<\/a>) and the plucked lute tar (a distant relative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/musical-instruments\/uyghur-rawap\/\">Uyghur rawap<\/a>). This musical system is very close to the dastgah system of Iranian classical music.<\/p>\n<p>Another important musical tradition among the Azeris is the tradition of ashiq, bards who recite epic stories (dastan) and sing interspersing songs. They accompany themselves on the plucked string lute saz, a close relative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/musical-instruments\/turkish-baglama\/\">ba\u011flama<\/a>, which also has its own well-developed repertoire. The style is very similar to other epic poetry singing traditions in the region such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/central-asia\/peoples-and-musics#tabs-tu\">Turkmen<\/a> bagshy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/the-middle-east\/peoples-and-musics#tabs-tu\">Turkish<\/a> ashik, as well as the baxshi of Khorezm in <a href=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/central-asia\/peoples-and-musics#tabs-uz\">Uzbekistan<\/a>, and is also practiced in a very similar fashion among the neighbouring Armenian and Georgian population peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caucasus Azeri People Population: ca. 30-35 million Mainly resides in: Azerbaijan, Iran Main Religion: Shia Islam Language: Azerbaijan (Turkic language) The Azeri people are the descendants of a tribe of Turkic people called the Oghuz Turks, who migrated from Central Asia into the Caucasus and Northwestern Iran, and converted to Shia Islam in the 13th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":45,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-caucasus","category-about-the-exhibition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peoples and Musics - Caucasus - Between Europe and Asia: Traditional Music and Costumes from Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peoples and Musics - Caucasus - Between Europe and Asia: Traditional Music and Costumes from Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Caucasus Azeri People Population: ca. 30-35 million Mainly resides in: Azerbaijan, Iran Main Religion: Shia Islam Language: Azerbaijan (Turkic language) The Azeri people are the descendants of a tribe of Turkic people called the Oghuz Turks, who migrated from Central Asia into the Caucasus and Northwestern Iran, and converted to Shia Islam in the 13th [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Between Europe and Asia: Traditional Music and Costumes from Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-19T09:52:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/\",\"name\":\"Between Europe and Asia: Traditional Music and Costumes from Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/\",\"name\":\"Peoples and Musics - Caucasus - Between Europe and Asia: Traditional Music and Costumes from Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-05T10:17:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-19T09:52:15+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/peoples-and-musics\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Caucasus\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/lbcone.hkust.edu.hk\/music-costumes\/caucasus\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Peoples and Musics &#8211; 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