Type de publication
Article
Year
2017
with
B.Doval, L.Feugère & L.Moreau-Gaudry
Published in
Yearbook for Traditional Music, vol 49
Edited by
J. Engelhardt & E. Amy de la Bretèque (guest eds)
Pages
129-148
Abstract
The Yezidis are a Kurmanji-speaking religious minority living scattered across northern Iraq, Syria, the Caucasus, and western Europe. Among the Yezidis of Armenia, “speech” (axavtin), “song” (stran), and “words about” (kilamê ser) constitute the three main categories of vocal production. This article is a detailed exploration of the acoustic characteristics of these categories of vocal production with a special focus on “words about.”
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Attached media
Name
Entire Hbo audio file
Audio file
Name
Song (stran)
Audio file
Name
Speech (axavtin)
Audio file
Name
“Words about” (kilamê ser)
Audio file
Name
Speech (axavtin) 2
Audio file
Name
Non-melodized “words about” (non-melodized kilamê ser)
Audio file
Research project
Yezidi laments
Description
On vocality and the narration of loss amongst the Yezidis in Armenia, 2006 - 2014