Music of Azerbaijan

"I recommend this book not only for the lovers of mugham music, or solely for musicologists and ethnomusicologists, but also for those interested in the processes of theold Soviet Union, in musical change, and in the struggles and syntheses of national and global tendencies."—Asian Music

"Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera, is wellresearched and thoughtfully structured. The writing is fluent and pleasant to read, and the book achieves its goal of providing a detailed overview of composed music in Azerbaijan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."—Slavic Review

"Aida Huseynova's book Music of Azerbaijan: From Mugham to Opera offers a rare resource for the exploration of Azerbaijani art music of the twentieth century. "—Notes

"Music of Azerbaijan paves the path for crucial research avenues on Azerbaijani musical culture."—Fontes Artis Musice

"In each chapter Huseynova combines historical context, cultural insights, and musicological analysis to create a study of musical and cultural fusion that is as compelling as it is informative. She rounds off the work with the re-staging of the Uzeyir Hajibeyli's first mugham opera, played on the world stage with Alim Gasimov and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble—a triumphant testimony to the power of cultural fusion."—Anna Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University