Reinventing Ruhowzi
Experiments in Contemporary Iranian Musical Theater
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erum Naqvi (State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-48 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18739865-01301002 |
| OpenAlex | W3025539062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
In the last few years, Tehran’s arts culture has seen the re-emergence of a thriving theater scene, including experimentation with various performance practices that were restricted in public forums for several years. In this article, I address a 2017 production called Gonbadgah which is a choreographed regional ethnic dance interwoven with classical music and staged as a story inspired by ruhowzi , the erstwhile cabaret theater of early twentieth-century Iran. Offering a genealogy of ruhowzi that traces its artists from from elite performers with royal patronage to low-brow urban entertainers in Pahlavi-era Iran, in this article I situate Gonbadgah as a production that aims to revisit the art form (one that much of today’s youth culture considers dated), and reframe it, leveraging the canon of ‘high’ classical music. As such, the production aims to cut across established musical hierarchies to offer a more egalitarian view of traditional arts for contemporary audiences
Aesthetics · Art · Ballet · Cognitive reframing · Dance · Elite · Media studies · Musical · Performing arts · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Thriving · Visual arts · History · Law · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
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Sounds like Iran
Indigenous Performing Traditions in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theater
Underground, Overground
Music, Festivity, and Gender in Iran from the Qajar to the Early Pahlavi Period
Performativity and representation in transnational blackface
Music and Song in Persia
Encounters in Ethnomusicology
The song of the nightingale
Classical Persian Music
Aspects of Form in the Instrumental Performance of the Persian Avaz
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |