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merchimerch) wrote2005-04-20 03:00 pm
merchimerch) wrote2005-04-20 03:00 pm
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I just remembered something Malika opa said while she was making a toast yesterday at dinner (she's really well spoken, I wish I had a recording of it).
Anyway at some point in her toast, after toasting the host of the TV show who sponsered the boring day in Guliston, she started thanking me for honoring her and Uzbekistan by studying the Shashmaqom and the mumtoz repertoire. She said that it was really wonderful that I was studying the music that was connected with sufi poets like Navoi and that were connected with the practice of zikr. This is really interesting to me because people often edge around the topic of sufism when talking about the shashmaqom and about music in general.
In previous conversations Malika opa has pointed out that all the love poetry in the songs I work on were written to God and that they were connected with Sufism, but made sure to emphasize that the Shashmaqom was not used in zikr. Interesting that during this meal she chose to emphasize the sufi aspect of the poetry of one of the reasons that Shashmaqom is so valuable. It may also have been because she was talking about a young poet earlier in the toast while praising the University that we were visiting.
Anyway at some point in her toast, after toasting the host of the TV show who sponsered the boring day in Guliston, she started thanking me for honoring her and Uzbekistan by studying the Shashmaqom and the mumtoz repertoire. She said that it was really wonderful that I was studying the music that was connected with sufi poets like Navoi and that were connected with the practice of zikr. This is really interesting to me because people often edge around the topic of sufism when talking about the shashmaqom and about music in general.
In previous conversations Malika opa has pointed out that all the love poetry in the songs I work on were written to God and that they were connected with Sufism, but made sure to emphasize that the Shashmaqom was not used in zikr. Interesting that during this meal she chose to emphasize the sufi aspect of the poetry of one of the reasons that Shashmaqom is so valuable. It may also have been because she was talking about a young poet earlier in the toast while praising the University that we were visiting.