Meykhana is spoken word improvisation, verbal recitatives, and a kind of entertainment that in the last two decades has largely spread across Azerbaijan. Contemporary meykhana, although it retains its characteristic rhythm, increasingly resembles popular songs rather than classical Middle Eastern poetry, and is now often being sung, not read. Thus, in its form and function, it has become an element of mass popular culture. At the same time, meykhana is increasingly considered to be one of the national symbols on a par with other traditional musical genres such as mugham and ashig art. Meykhana's contemporary dual nature, which is understood differently by different constituencies within the Azerbaijani population, with their own politicized agenda, is inherently nationalist in nature. Using such aspects of nationalism as ethnicity, tradition, modernization, and folkloricization I analyze different levels of meykhana and the various actors involved in its implementation. This paper contributes a case study to the rich body of literature on nationalism in musical performances by analyzing the ways in which identities are constructed and mobilized.

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以国家的名义大满贯：当代阿塞拜疆的民族主义 Meykhana

Meykhana 是口语即兴表演、口头宣叙调和一种娱乐，在过去的二十年里，它在阿塞拜疆广泛传播。当代meykhana虽然保留了其特有的节奏，但越来越像流行歌曲而不是古典中东诗歌，现在经常被唱，而不是被阅读。因此，就其形式和功能而言，它已成为大众流行文化的一个元素。与此同时，meykhana 越来越被认为是与其他传统音乐流派（如 mugham 和 ashig 艺术）相提并论的国家象征之一。Meykhana 的当代双重性质，阿塞拜疆人口中的不同选区对其有不同的理解，有自己的政治议程，本质上是民族主义的。利用民族主义的种族、传统、现代化和民俗化 我分析了不同层次的 meykhana 以及参与其实施的各种参与者。本文通过分析身份构建和动员的方式，为音乐表演中关于民族主义的丰富文献提供了一个案例研究。