Azerbaijani Mugham In the Pushkinsky Dom

Abstract

The Azerbaijani mugham is a traditional musical form, a pearl of Azerbaijani culture, proclaimed by UNESCO as a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of humanity in 2003 and inscribed on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. For the Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan, I represent that everything related to mugham (its music and sound recordings, musical instruments, testimonies of mugham performers, and studies of mugham) is of great interest. Of the more than 60,000 items in the museum's collection, the phono archive comprises approximately 3,000 items, of which the earliest audio recordings of mugham from the first decades of the 20th century are an important part. All the witnesses of the mugham’s history are valuable to the public.