The Central Asian dimension of the symbolic system in Bactria and Margiana

Francfort, Henri‐Paul

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“…More recent scholarship, however, has sought conceptual frameworks to explain the overlaps and incongruences in the material record in terms of various types of exchange (e.g. ideological, technological or economic) rather than in the movement of people themselves (Wright 1989; Francfort 1994; Good 2006, 2010; Doumani & Frachetti 2012). In this sense, Frachetti's ‘non-uniform’ schema (2009, 2012) offers a model of multi-scalar variability in Eurasian prehistoric social and material interactions by linking the circuits of everyday life and the broad regional spread of (dis)similar material culture.…”

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Mixing metaphors: sedentary-mobile interactions and local-global connections in prehistoric Turkmenistan

Rouse

Cerasetti

2018

Antiquity

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Mixing metaphors: sedentary-mobile interactions and local-global connections in prehistoric Turkmenistan

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Cerasetti

2018

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“…Около 2000 лет до н.э. вся территория от Бактрии до Китая находилась под сильным влиянием шаманизма [Francfort, 1994], предоставляя почву для перерастания костно-деревянно-бамбуковых варганных традиций в металлические.…”

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Для цитированияНикольский А. В., Алексеев Э. Е., Алексеев И. Е., Дьяконова В. Е. Как, где и когда складывались аутентичные варганные традиции Сибири и Дальнего Востока. Часть 3: Влияние материалов, их доступности и истории развития технологий их изготовления на акустические свойства варгана и тоновую организацию его музыки // Языки и фольклор коренных народов Сибири. 2021. № 1 (вып. 41). С. 9-31.

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“…Samoyedic female shamans still use a JH instead of a tambourine (Alekseyenko, 1988), the primary shamanic instrument across North Asia. Around 2000 BCE, the entire area from Bactria to China was strongly influenced by shamanism (Francfort, 1994).…”

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The Overlooked Tradition of “Personal Music” and Its Place in the Evolution of Music

Nikolsky¹,

Alekseyev²,

Alekseev

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Front. Psychol.

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This is an attempt to describe and explain so-called timbre-based music as a special system of musicking, communication, and psychological and social usage, which along with its corresponding beliefs constitutes a viable alternative to "frequency-based" music. Unfortunately, the current scientific research into music has been skewed almost entirely in favor of the frequency-based music prevalent in the West. Subsequently, whenever samples of timbre-based music attract the attention of Western researchers, these are usually interpreted as "defective" implementations of frequency-based music. The presence of discrete pitch is often regarded as the structural criterion that distinguishes music from non-music. We would like to present evidence to the contrary-in support of the existence of indigenous music systems based on the discretization and patterning of aspects of timbre, rather than pitch. This evidence comes mainly from extensive ethnographic research systematically conducted in eastern European and Asian parts of Russia from the 1890s. It involved the efforts of thousands of specialists and was coordinated by dozens of research institutions, and it has included not just ethnomusicology but linguistics, philology, organology, archaeology, anthropology, geography, and religious, and social studies. Much of the data has not been translated into Western languages. Although some Soviet-era publications were tainted by Marxist ideology, many researchers strove to provide accurate information (despite at times having been prosecuted for their work), and post-1990 research undertook a substantial revision of ideologically compromised concepts. Timbre-based tonal organization (TO) differs from that based on frequency in its personal orientation: musicking here occurs primarily for oneself and/or for close relatives/friends. Collective music-making is rare and exceptional. The foundation of timbre-based music seems to have vocal roots and rests on "personal song"-a system of personal identification through individualized patterns of rhythm, timbre, and pitch contour, utilized like a "human voice"-whose sound enables

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The Central Asian dimension of the symbolic system in Bactria and Margiana

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Mixing metaphors: sedentary-mobile interactions and local-global connections in prehistoric Turkmenistan

Mixing metaphors: sedentary-mobile interactions and local-global connections in prehistoric Turkmenistan

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The Overlooked Tradition of “Personal Music” and Its Place in the Evolution of Music

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