Summer is coming. A Medieval English song and one of the best examples of early European polyphony.
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Why do I use the term āIranianā and not āPersianā in my titles? I get this question alot so let me clarify.
In the West, the terms āIranianā and āPersianā have been incorrectly used as interchangeable synonyms for over 2000 years.
Iranians are an ethnolinguistic family and nationality. Usually, to specify the ethnolinguistic family in the broadest sense of any population that spoke an Iranic language, the term Iranic is used. Iranic is a strictly linguistic term that denotes anyone who spoke an Iranic language, whilst Iranian typically denotes populations inhabiting the region of Greater Iran in West Asia. The Sarmatians, therefore, were Iranic speakers, but not necessarily Iranian as they dwelt in Eastern Europe, not Greater Iran.
Persians are one member of this family and nationality. The most historically significant ones, but also one part of a whole.
Crassus didnāt fight the Persians, he fought the Parthians. Alexander didnāt marry a Persian woman when he married Roxana, he married a Bactrian or a Sogdian. Zoroastrianism isnāt āthe Persian religion,ā it was a broadly Iranian religion, practiced among others by Persians, with roots in the *Avestan* culture and language.
Using the terms āIranianā and āPersianā as synonyms is a terminological nightmare that has been widely normalised in pop-culture. Imagine not distinguishing the concepts of āSlavicā and āRussian.ā People think they mean the same thing, therefore if Slavic = Russian, and Polish culture is Slavic, that means Polish culture is Russian. Now people call Poles āRussianā and think thereās no distinction between the two.
As a Mazandarani Iranian, I make music about various Iranian ethnicities, using inspiration from all the diversity of Iranian cultures: Baloch, Lur, Gilani, Mazandarani, Kurdish, Persian and others. Hence why I use the term āIranian.ā
And for those who will produce this idiotic, inane defense: ābut historically, the West has used these terms interchangeably, so itās perfectly fine to keep doing the same. Youāre just mad weāre using an exonym, but everyone uses exonyms.ā Let me address the insanity of this sentiment:
My ancestors called all Europeans āFrankish.ā Just imagine if in every video, from
now on, I referred to all Europeans as Frankish. Imagine the needless confusion it would create. Iād say āFranks influenced polyphonic music,ā without any way to know if it means all Europeans, or the Franks proper, or another individual European culture such as the Catalans, Occitans, French, Welsh etc.
Upon being criticised for the unnecessary confusion and lack of clarity, I would then hide behind the excuse of āwell itās what my ancestors called all Europeans. Everyone uses exonyms, get over it. Itās totally accurate to say the Franks discovered America in 1492 because in MY culture, Franks means all Europeans.ā If I did this, Iād be openly showing that Iām O.K with muddling information and making communication unclear because stubbornly keeping to my cultureās historical exonyms matters more than efficient communication.
Modern Western sciences now use the terms Iranian and Persian with the distinct definitions I explained. The people who stubbornly cling to the aforementioned arguments have a choice between:
ā¢ Established academic terminology which is clear, concise, facilitates communication and is respectful of the cultures in question
vs
ā¢ Continuing to engage in an Ancient Greek error, because the Ancient Greeks mistakenly believed all Iranians to be Persian.
And they are proudly choosing the error, ābecause itās ancient.ā The antiquity of a mistake renders it more legitimate to them than fact. That is anti-intellectualism and ignorantism at its finest. Argumentum ad antiquitatem. Appeal to tradition. A classic example of sophistry and fallacious argumentation.
Exonyms are natural, but *some* exonyms are untenable. Western European countries used to call Bulgarians and the Rus āScythians.ā Romans called all Celts āGaulish.ā Arabs called Vikings āZoroastrians.ā Cool, they did that in the past. We stopped doing that, because weāre not lunatics. We understand that effective communication matters more than ātradition.ā If it's ok to refer to the people who killed Crassus as Persians, then it's ok for me to refer to Christopher Columbus, the Doges of Venice and the English as "Franks."
By using the terms Iranian and Persian as interchangeable terms, everyone now believes Iranian culture to be a mono-linguistic, mono-ethnic, mono-cultural monolith that is singularly Persian. That is a distortion of fact. This distortion is caused by usage of unclear terminology.
The fact is that Iranians and Iranic peoples as a whole are a diverse, rich tapestry of ethnicities and cultures where the Persians hold a central, dominant role. This fact is accessible through usage of clear terminology.
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This one has a really cool clip for it, plz watch and Iāll buy you bootleg smirnoff vodka
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The latest epic symphony is out and itās my biggest and longest one yet; the life of a Janissary through the musical language of the Balkans and Anatolia, from Epirusā chants to the Sufi rythms of Alevism and the regal sounds of Ottoman Classical Music.
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Happy Shab-e Yalda to all those who celebrate it
December is here so hereās an epic clip I filmed for my countryās oldest Christmas songāI literally walked up icy mountains here in Canada so plz watch and I will send you a free poutine by mail
Welcome to my channel! My goal is to showcase musical traditions from all over the globe, regardless of culture, ethnicity and religion. I want this channel to be like a musical world museum, a library of musical traditions from all over the world and all over time. I make three general types of content here: arrangements of historical/world music that respects each culture and time periodās authenticity, original compositions that are more creative but still utilise aspects of world music, and informative videos where I explore certain subjects using academic research and sources.