What we do and should call classical music and what "classical" means in general are the topics that came up in my conversations with friends and acquaintances at least twice in the past few months.
Banality is tiring. Especially when you are young, you often get tired of hearing the same idea, naturally reacting to it with either contempt or irony. This is understandable: frequent repetition of an idea cheapens it to some extent, making it trite and commonplace, and, like all ordinary things we are accustomed to, it eventually stops attracting our attention.
What can be easier than listening to music? Scratching your head? Even then, you would have to use your hand, whereas you don't have to move a finger to listen to music. But, as is often the case, experts and scientists disagree. According to them, listening to music is a much more complex process than it seems.
Iranian-speaking peoples are one of the important substrates of our ethnicity, just not those who live in modern Iran, but others, who lived in ancient times in Central Asia—not the Persians, but the Parthians; and it happened long before the Mongol conquests.
The Treaties of Gulistan (1813) and Turkmenchay (1828), which played an important role in the fate of our region, have been presented for many years as factors that “divided the Azerbaijani people in two” and adversely affected the historical evolution of Azerbaijan. However, if we look closely at the historical realities of that time, we cannot but see a logical error in this statement: the "Azerbaijani people" in the political sense emerged in the political reality born of these treaties. But who were we until then and what were we called?
One of the main reasons behind the current situation in Karabakh is the increase in the number of politically active Armenians in the region north of the Araz two centuries ago, and the decrease in the number of likewise inclined Azerbaijanis there.
The arrival of Gipsy Kings on the international music scene with the eponymous album had a bombshell effect. The fiery songs on the album, such as “Bamboleo”, “Djobi, Djoba” and others, which still retain their fresh flavor, have been recorded in the pages of world music that will never be erased.