Conservatory published a conference proceeding «A.V.Zatayevich and the problems of preserving the World Music heritage»
In 2021, the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory published a conference proceeding «A.V.Zatayevich and the problems of preserving the World Music heritage».
This collection continues the series of proceedings of World Music international conferences, held by the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 2000. The eighth meeting on October 11-12, 2019 was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Russian musical ethnographer A. V. Zatayevich, who devoted his many years’ study to Kazakh’s art and musical traditions of Central Asia. A century ago, the researcher laid solid foundations of ethnomusicology in the Soviet East republics and Russian-Kazakh cooperation.
The proceedings contain reports and articles by researchers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Great Britain, the Netherlands, China, Bulgaria and Uzbekistan, dedicated to studying the World music. The first section includes materials about the research, composer and educational activities of A. V. Zatayevich. A wide range of problems associated with the study of his heritage covers archival research, the analysis of the ethnographer’s role in the formation of modern ethnomusicology, musical oriental studies, ethnoorganology and musical Turkology, in the methodology development for studying musical traditions, in Eurasian intercultural interaction.
The reports and articles of the second section are devoted to studying musical traditions in the context of the world’s intangible cultural heritage. The studies cover vast geography from Spain and Marocco in the west to Tuva and India in the east. The authors raise the problems of the methodology of musical oriental studies, computer analysis of sonograms, and an integrated musical-cultural approach to studying individual countries and peoples’ music. Several articles contain new information on Central Asian migrants’ musical activities; about the traditions of the Karaites, Tuvans, Bulgarians in modern realities; about such significant musical and cultural traditions as the music of India and Andalusia; about the music of Islam. The third section presents the research of young scientists.
These conference proceedings will be useful in the study of the World music and intangible cultural heritage, as well as in various educational courses of higher music education institutions. The range of disciplines in which the collection can be helpful includes World music, the history of Soviet, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tuvan, Bashkirian music, the methodology of musicology and ethnomusicology.
The editorial board expresses gratitude to the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory for support in holding the conference, to the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory and reviewers for comprehensive assistance in publishing these proceedings.
