Svan Funeral Dirges (Zär): Cultural Context
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چکیده
This article is a companion paper to Scherbaum and Mzhavanadze (2020), (2020) (2021). Together they describe the results of an interdisciplinary study three-part funeral dirge Svan zär (‘zari’ in Georgian). In present paper, we provide all contextual (ethnographic, ethnological, historical) data that collected from various written and/or oral sources then processed organized comprehensible way help reader better understand this unique phenomenon. We believe order answer basic question ‘how zärs work,’ acoustical, musicological, phonetic (as well as language-music interface) analyses other three articles must be interpreted through understanding full context cultural behavior.Thus, not only did collect integrate related review literature, but also raise discuss some problematic issues, such as, for example, etymology term zär. offer interpretation/description conflicting historical generate interest its further research. addition, introduce details our field research (2015, 2016), may great importance when discussing or interpreting presented (analytical) parts study.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Musicologist: International journal of music studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2618-5652']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.906765