Resurrecting the Nomads: Historical Nostalgia and Modern Nationalism in Contemporary Kazakh Popular Music Videos

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Author(s)

Rancier, Megan

Title

Resurrecting the Nomads: Historical Nostalgia and Modern Nationalism in Contemporary Kazakh Popular Music Videos

Publication Type

Journal Article

Language

eng

Number of Pages

19

Location

Kazakhstan

Keywords

kmusical culture of Kazakhstan

heritage reinterpretation

traditional music

popular music

Relevance to ICH Safeguarding

identification

promotion

transmission

ICH Genre

performing arts: music

Description

This article analyzes three recent music videos by several Kazakh popular musicians: the multinational artist , the ethno-pop band, and the young dombra (two-string lute) virtuoso Asylbek Engsepov. These videos, all produced since 2002, reflect varying degrees of historical nostalgia and nationalism through music and images of Kazakh traditional culture, creating powerful messages of Kazakh national identity for contemporary audiences in Kazakhstan. Drawing upon historian Ronald Gregor Suny's concept of a national "narrative" and notion of "restorative nostalgia," the article interrogates the types of images used and the reactions that they inspire in their audiences. The article examines not only issues of national identity construction and musical nation-building, but also probes the political motivations and implications of state involvement in the propagation of Kazakh musical nationalism in a multicultural, post-Soviet Kazakhstan.

Book/Journal Title

Popular Music and Society, July

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Place of Publication

New York, US

Date of Publication

2009

Volume

32

Issue

3

Pages

387–405

ISSN

ISSN 0300-7766

ISSNe 1740-1712

Academic Field

Traditional culture

Cultural Studies

Contributor

Kazakhstan National Committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Active Contribution

Kazakhstan, FY 2023