Shāh Esmā'il and his three wives : : a Persian-Turkish dāstān as performed by bards of Khorasan / / edited by Ameneh Youssefzadeh, Stephen Blum.

• Superior document: Studies on Performing Arts and Literature of the Islamicate World
• TeilnehmendeR: Blum, Stephen, 1942-; Youssefzadeh, Ameneh,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Performing Arts and Literature of the Islamicate World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)

"This book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other regions are performed wholly in a Turkic language with prose narration in Persian, Khorasani Turkish or Kurmanji Kurdish and most verses in Turkish. We compare portions of the full performance transcribed here with excerpts from two performances of Iranian bakhshis in the 1970s. Three introductory chapters and a commentary discuss musical and verbal dimensions of the bakhshi's art in relation to relevant social, historical, and literary contexts"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The bakhshis and their art. The multilingual bards of Northern Khorasan -- Characters and imagery of the dāstān of Shāh Esmāʻīl and Golzār Khānom -- Performance practice of the bakhshis -- Text and translation of Shāh Esmāʻīl and Golzār Khānom -- Commentary.