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In Melodised Speech Amy de la Bretèque offers an analysis of Yezidis of Armenia’s oral tradition, mainly lamentations and epic narratives. Amongst the Yezidis of Armenia, mourning, exile, and heroism are evoked through a specific mode of expression. Combining ethnography, acoustic analysis, and linguistics, the author shows that this use of the voice constructs an ideal of life connecting the living to the absent and the deceased.
The English language translation from French was funded by USIAS, fellowship 2025.
Price: $136.00
Pages: 146
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Non-Mainstream Religion in the Middle East
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004775848
Format: Hardcover
Estelle Amy de la Bretèque, Ph.D. (2010), Anthropologist/Ethnomusicologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She has published books and articles on the Yezidis and on vocal traditions from the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean.