Federico Spinetti

Federico Spinetti is a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research has primarily focused on the political economy of music in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia, particularly Tajikistan; on musical relations across the Mediterranean Sea (including his edited collection Giuseppe Donizetti Pasha: Musical and Historical Trajectories between Italy and Turkey, 2010); and on contemporary Italian popular music. Since 2006 he has been researching the music-architecture nexus in the context of the Iranian traditional martial arts gymnasium (zūrkhāneh), directing a documentary film on this topic (Zurkhaneh: The House of Strength—Music and Martial Arts of Iran, 2011).

Images & Videos

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Example of mil exercise.
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First example of varid kardan (lit. “letting in”)
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Murshid Alireza Hojjati performing a poem by Hafiz to the narmesh exercise.
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Murshid Qasim Qasimi sings a devotional poem during the narmesh and pā exercises
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Second example of varid kardan (lit. “letting in”)
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Interaction between myāndār and murshid in performance
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Kabbādeh exercise
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Pā exercise - with a devotional poem sung by murshid Ehsan Golchin – followed by the charkh exercise
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Collections

Of Mirrors and Frames: Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zurkhaneh (Iran)
Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam: Supplemental Media