PCI - Un regard ethnosociologique sur les musiques chinoise et ouïgoure

An Ethnosociological Look at Chinese and Uyghur Music

Length: 0h 56mn 02s 62
Language: French
Video of an interview with researcher Shot on jeudi 28 juin 2007 in Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris

Participant(s)

Sabine Trebinjac, Interviewee

Reseacher at CNRS, Laboratory of Comparative Ethnology and Sociology
University Nanterre - Paris X

Sabine TREBINJAC is a researcher at the CNRS, the Laboratory of Comparative Ethnology and Sociology, and the Université Nanterre -Paris X. She is also a lecturer in ethnology. Sabine Trebinjac is an ethnologist, historian, sociologist of music, and a sinologist. Her research deals with ancient and contemporary China and she primarily focuses on the relationships between State policy and music. She has spent much time in China and for nearly twenty years (since 1988) she has been focusing on Chinese Turkestan, its Turkish populations, and its music, which falls under the Irano-Arab-Turkish musical umbrella.

Aygun Eyyubova, Interviewer

Engineer
ESCoM-FMSH
Email: eyyubova@msh-paris.fr

Camille Bonnemazou, Director

ESCoM-FMSH
Email: bcamille@msh-paris.fr

Scientific discipline(s)

Musicology
Sociology of music
Cultural anthropology

Sabine Trebinjac explains the meaning of what is called “Chinese Music.” It encompasses all ethnic music present in China for which the Chinese State has implemented a procedure of control and traditionalization. This process is discussed in detail through the example of Uyghur music with Turkish origins. The researcher then introduces us to the singularities of Uyghur music while particularly focusing on the Muqam genre. To paint a better picture of what Uyghur music is, Sabine Trebinjac lets us listen to two pieces of Muqam Uyghur from her disk called “Chinese Turkestan/Xinjiang” recorded with the help of Jean During and produced by Radio France OCORA in 1990. The music excerpts available on the site are accompanied by snapshots of Xinjiang taken by Sabine Trebinjac.