Publication Date
2010
Publication Place
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EyeSteelFilm
Subject
Qashqāʾī (Turkic people) Nomads > Iran. Music > Iran.
Type
Other
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (120 min.).
Library
Yale University
Record ID
991010369343708651
Date
2010
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014). In Persian (Farsi, Western). Original language in Persian (Farsi, Western).
Sample Text
Amin is the story of an ancient musical tradition and one man's struggle to preserve it. It is told using a unique approach to documentary storytelling that challenges the boundaries of fiction and reality. Amin Aghaie is a young modern nomad from the south of Iran. He has dedicated his life to preserving, documenting and teaching the unique musical tradition of his people, the Qashqai tribe, a tradition on the verge of extinction. Despite the fact that Amin's family face steep financial and cultural obstacles, they are devoted to their art and culture and express that by supporting the work of their talented musician son. Every summer, Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family sells their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kiev, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.
Kataloğa Eklendi
June 24, 2025
Diğer Sorumlular
Parhami, Shahin
Diğer Formatlar
Previously released as DVD.
Dizi
Academic Video Online
