Dr. Adalyat Issiyeva

Adalyat Issiyeva holds a Bachelor of Music from Almaty State Conservatoire and master’s and doctoral degrees from McGill University. Presently, she teaches at McGill, Carleton, and Concordia Universities in Canada. She is the author of a number of articles on Russian Orientalism and book Representing Russia’s Orient: from Ethnography to Art Song, recently published by Oxford University Press. In this book, she explores the political implications of nineteenth-century Russian art songs with oriental subjects and presents a story of how long-forgotten peripheries of the Russian empire contributed to the formation of the Russian musical identity. Her research was supported by Fonds de recherche de Québec sur la société et la culture (FRQSC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and a Schulich School of Music Scholarship. 

e-mail: adalyat.issiyeva@mcgill.ca 

or

adalyatissiyeva@cunet.carleton.ca

List of most recent publications:

Representing Russia’s Orient: From Ethnography to Art Song. New York: Oxford University Press. In print (publication date Nov. 01, 2020).   

“Rimsky-Korsakov and His Orient,” 145–176. In Rimsky-Korsakov and His World, Marina Frolova-Walker, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

“Dialogue of Cultures: French Musical Orientalism in Russia, “Artistic Truth,” and Russian Musical Identity,” in Revue musicale OICRM 3/1 (2016): 71–92. 

“The Origin of Russian Primitivism? Alexander Grechaninov’s Arrangements of Asian Songs.” In Sacre Celebration: Revisiting, Reflecting, Revisioning (Toronto: York University), 67–80. Published online. URL: http://sacre.info.yorku.ca/files/2013/10/Issiyeva.pdf

“‘Connected by the Ties of Blood’:  Musical Scales in the Quest for the Russian/Asian Identity,” in Revue du Centre Européen d'Etudes Slaves 2: Imaginaire collectif slave et construction identitaire. Published online July 3, 2013. URL: http://etudesslaves.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/index.php?id=527

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/representing-russias-orient-9780190051365?cc=ca&lang=en&