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	Music of Central Asia Summary
		Central Asian music, that is, the music of the former Soviet states of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, is based on the interaction of nomadic and sedentary cultures and on the blending of the region's Persian and Turkic cultures and languages.
		Music is found in the chants (zikr) and sometimes in the instrumental music of Sufi ceremonies.
		The music of Central Asia is as vast and unique as the many cultures and peoples who inhabit the region.
	www.bookrags.com /Music_of_Central_Asia (1137 words)

	Music of Inner Mongolia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Inner Mongolia is a province of China, with traditions related to Tuvan music and Mongolian music.
		Musically, it is known for the Han shanxi opera tradition.
		Music of Inner Mongolia, Central Asian music, Inner Mongolia and Music of Chinese subdivisions.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Music_of_Inner_Mongolia (199 words)

	Uzbek National Music --- Sairam Tourism
		Central Asian music, dances, musical instruments and artists as dowries of royal brides, diplomatic presents and in other capacities would reach China, Korea, Japan and other countries.
		The main musical instruments of makoms are the tanbur and the doira.
		The pervasion of European music in Uzbekistan consequent to Russia's annexation of Turkestan stimulated the formation of a new phase of Uzbek national music.
	www.sairamtour.com /uzbekistan/uzbek_national_music.html (1908 words)

	Music of Tajikistan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The classical music is shashmaqam, which is very similar to Uzbek music [1].
		Southern Tajikistan has a distinctive form of folk music called falak, which is played at celebrations for weddings, circumcisions and other occasions.
		Tajik folk music is traditionally divided into three styles, Pamir (Mountain-Badakhshan province), Central Kuhistoni (Gissar, Kulyab, Garm provinces) and Sogdiana's northern style; the latter is part of the same musical culture as the adjacent regions of Uzbekistan (Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Music_of_Tajikistan (366 words)

	Boojle - Bukharian Entertainment and News at Your Fingertips
		Music is a vital part of any culture, acting as a means of achieving some sense of group identity and demonstrating the ethos of the culture to others.
		Music is one of the most effective means of portraying to outsiders what a specific group thinks and feels about itself and the world around it.
		This traditional orientation can be observed in Central Asian music, and indeed in all music of the Islamic world, since Muslims tend to lay much emphasis on the family and the community (whether it is a village or an entire ethnic group).
	www.boojle.com /?p=bukharianmusic (3092 words)

	Windows on Asia
		The tone of Korean music in general, and the Jeongak genre in particular, is warm and soft.
		As one of the most common musical styles heard at traditional concerts, this musical form is used for solos performed by a number of instruments and ensembles.
		Sanjo music is popular as a style that allows the performer to demonstrate his or her technical expertise while giving free rein to his or her creative expression.
	www.asia.msu.edu /eastasia/SouthKorea/music.html (3009 words)

	China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD \| Publications for Educators \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Music in the early Tang came from every part of Asia, but the most popular type was from Kucha in Central Asia.
		Central Asian music is represented here by four Central Asian musicians, including a lute player and what looks like a musician playing a wind instrument (seated on the right).
		Central Asian music includes a variety of diverse traditions and styles, roughly divided between those popular among settled peoples and types favored by pastoralists.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/china_dawn/HT_182_01.html (783 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Music and Voices of Central Asia (Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia) - Press Release
		The musicians presented in Music and Voices of Central Asia are the region’s leading exponents of their musical genre or style, yet most remain all but unknown in the West.
		The music of Tengir-Too (Too is pronounced like “toe”)—led by Nurlanbek Nyshanov, the 40-year-old innovator on traditional forms—fuses nomadic musical traits such as an emphasis on a nature-based spirituality, the ever-present bard, and epic tales as long as thirty times the length of Homer’s Iliad with European compositional techniques.
		Music of Central Asia documents the work of musicians who represent both a mastery of their own tradition and a contemporary spirit of innovation expressed through new approaches to performance style, repertory, and technique.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/256.cfm (1537 words)

	Central Asian, Iranian Recordings Compete For 'World Music' Grammy
		But most traditional music from outside North America and Europe is grouped into a Western marketing category known as "World Music." Thus Central Asian "maqam" is competing in the same category as a South African gospel choir, classical Hindustani musicians, a Scandinavian-styled trio, and a live recording of Iranian and Armenian masters.
		The album is called "Invisible Face Of The Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks." It is part of a project by the Agha Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia that has been distributed by the Smithsonian Folkways label.
		The music on the album is performed by students from the Academy of Maqam in Dushanbe.
	www.payvand.com /news/07/feb/1117.html (875 words)

	H-Net Review: Robin Bisha on The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and ...
		In demonstrating the similarities in musical culture among the Uzbek and Tajik Muslim populations and between the Muslims and the Bukharan Jews, he also analyzes the Soviet cultural policies which attempted to build ethnic (or national in Soviet parlance) identities to correspond with the borders of the Union Republics of the region.
		For the most part, however, performers with a deep spiritual component to their music, the fools of God of the title, lament that they are the last of their breed, that people have become secular in their desires and that music as Turgun Alimatov and Tohfaxan Pinkhasova, for example, have practiced it is dying.
		Perhaps the absence of even traces of European musical aesthetics in the music Levin recorded is the most telling evidence of the failure of Soviet policy both to eradicate the old musical/religious tradition and to replace it with a pan-Soviet culture.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9562908913416 (2072 words)

	Music in Uzbekistan & Tajikistan
		The classical music of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia is often overlooked in a survey of the world's music, but this is completely unjustified.
		Music from this region is strongly conditioned by both Turkish and Iranian styles, along with a dose of its own originality.
		This gradual variation is perhaps most apparent in the instrumental music of the plucked-string dotar, the most important solo instrument of the region.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/central.html (762 words)

	Distinguishing Features of Korea
		Korean music influenced that of China or Japan in ancient times, and later, it was in turn significantly influenced by Chinese or Central Asian music.
		During the late twentieth century, Western-style music was introduced to Korea and in terms of quantity, became more pervasive than traditional music forms.
		Historically, Korean music has developed through frequent exchanges with neighboring nations; yet, it has preserved and developed a number of features that are unique.
	www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/korea/perform/distinguishing_features_of_korea.htm (1027 words)

	Central Asia Downloads - Download Central Asia Music - Download Central Asia MP3s
		Central Asia has also been an area where religion has traveled with invaders and traders, and Islam and Buddhism in particular have made their impact upon Central Asian music as well.
		One of the joys of Jasraj's music is his depiction of the unusual.
		Analyzing Huun-Huur-Tu's music, The Chicago Tribune, wrote, 'it is unfamiliar yet very accessible, an other-worldly but deeply spiritual music that is rooted in the sound of nature".
	www.mp3.com /central-asia/genre/830/subgenre.html (1858 words)

	Silk Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Music of the Silk Road is, as the title suggests, an album that seeks to offer an introduction to the music created along the ancient Silk Road that connected Africa and Europe with Asia.
		Ash Music, the UK label that put this disk out, has a large collection of Central Asian works, and they've all been appropriated for this collection.
		Granted, I've heard some of the more familiar tracks, but I'm a Central Asian music nut; this work was designed for all of you out there who are curious about this music but don't want to spent $50 buying albums you're not sure you'll like.
	www.hauntedink.com /almaty/musicsilkroad.html (515 words)

	Kazakh Adoptive Families: Music
		The reason for this similarity in instrumentation is due to the fact that many central Asian cultures were nomadic and, thus, required their belongings to be portable.
		It is mainly a vocal music, sung by men, the bakhshy, who accompany themselves with a lute, the dutâr, and/or a fiddle (the ghidjak).
		The music on Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia ranges from the classical traditions of the region, as hailing from Samarkand and Tashkent, to modern hard rock, as well as all points on the spectrum between the extremes.
	kazakhadoptivefamilies.com /music2.html (3394 words)

	Kyrgyz, Afghan and Tajik Concert Sponsored by Aga Khan Music Initiative - New York Times
		The instruments were ancient, the music was old and new, and the presentation was subtly high-tech in "Music From Central Asia," a triple bill of ensembles from Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan on Tuesday night at the Miller Theater.
		There were no microphones between musicians and audience, but the music was gently amplified to bring out sonic nuances: the eerie harmonics of a Kyrgyz jew's harp, the sympathetic strings of an Afghan rubab (plucked lute), the percussive strumming of a two-stringed Tajik dutar.
		Musically and sartorially, the Kyrgyz ensemble Tengir-Too was the concert's peak.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/23/arts/music/23cent.html?ex=1300770000&en=f145e86c1a63f301&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (537 words)

	Central Asian virtuoso musicians to be artists in residence (Mar 8, 2006)
		Central Asian virtuoso musicians to be artists in residence
		Other participants in the Central Asian University Residencies program besides UW-Madison are Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Wyoming.
		The musicians' visit to UW-Madison is made possible with funds from the Kemper K. Knapp Bequest, in collaboration with the Central Asian Cultural Exchange (CACE) and the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the United States, as well as the Silkroad Foundation and the Soros Foundation in Kyrgyzstan.
	www.news.wisc.edu /12275.html (337 words)

	Central Asia: Musicians Spread Traditions In The West - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Broughton told RFE/RL that Central Asian songs are not the most popular of the traditional music that is marketed in the West under the category of "World Music." But he says traditional music from Central Asia is making inroads into the global music market.
		One reason Central Asian music is exotic for European audiences is the fact that it was isolated for so long during the Soviet era.
		Broughton says one reason Central Asian music is exotic for European audiences is the fact that it was isolated for so long during the Soviet era.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2006/10/b5e09fd6-848e-4694-97b8-2928580413ea.html (1366 words)

	Music Initiative in Central Asia.
		In Qzyl-Orda, in central Kazakhstan, renowned epic performer and scholar Almas Almatov is conserving and digitising archival recordings of epic singers, conducting ethnographic expeditions with advanced students, and preparing audio-visual materials to support the training of a new generation of performers of oral epic and poetry.
		The Music Touring and Festivals Programme was created to celebrate Central Asian musical traditions in regions where they are little known, and integrate leading exponents of these traditions into the global network of music presenting institutions.
		The Music Initiative has undertaken a long-term collaboration with the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum and research complex of the United States, to create a ten-volume Anthology of Central Asian Music.
	www.akdn.org /Music/Musicin.htm (2519 words)

	Central Asian and Caucasian Music
		Music of 'Tulip Era' of Sultan Ahmet III (1703-1730); makam Hidjaz Homayoun [1990]
		Sultan Composers: Music of the Sultans, Sufis and Seraglio vol.
		The Islamic Music of the Sect of Bektasi: Hymns of the Sacred Koran
	www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/collect/lists/central_asian_music.htm (1476 words)

	www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia and the Caucasus » Central Asian Film and Music Event in Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The event featured three music documentaries by Uzbek film director Saodat Ismailova: “Revitalizing Shashmaqam, Court Music of Central Asia”, “Homayun Sakhi: The Art Of The Afghan Rubab” and Tengir-Too: Mountain Music Of Kyrgyzstan”.
		The event was well attended, by international and Central Asian audience, who represented vast Czech Central Asian community – staff of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and students of English language universities in Prague.
		And so Central Asian music has attracted relatively strong support within a certain community which is interested in world music and international cultures generally”, wrote RFE/RL.
	neweurasia.net /?p=771 (1179 words)

	Media Guide: The Big Book: Finding the fools of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		All five governments of the former Central Asian republics-Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-have made efforts to renew ties to their pre-communist past and in the course of doing so have sometimes exaggerated that past.
		A student of traditional Central Asian music at Uzbekistan's Tashkent Music Academy in the late 1970s, he takes the reader through Uzbekistan, the northern section of neighboring Tajikistan, and parts of Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan seeking the creators of that music.
		Players of traditional music were labeled nationalists and the music was deemed too religious in content or a throwback to a less enlightened, more exploited society.
	www.mediaguide.hu /book/bookID46.html (766 words)

	New Sounds in World Music
		Fortunately, the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage have showcased the folk music of Kyrgyzstan to listeners worldwide with the release of Music of Central Asia Vol.
		Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan should be the album of choice for all Central Asian music listeners.
		The music is distinctly Hindi-pop with a mature sensibility and a progressive tone.
	www.insideworldmusic.com /library/blrevs142.htm (1170 words)

	Iranian Classical Music
		The music is based upon a modal system; with each mode engendering different melodic types, called gushehs in Farsi.
		Also, Iranian music is unique in the Middle Eastern tradition in that the different melodic phrases, or gushes are supposed to model the rhythmic stamp and melodic pattern of poetry.
		In response to this pressure, and in a misdirected effort to "raise" Persian music to the level of Western music, two theories on the intervals and scales of Persian music were proposed in the twentieth century:
	www.iranchamber.com /music/articles/iranian_classical_music.php (1448 words)

	Central Asia: Smithsonian Label To Release Anthology Of Region's Folk Music - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a commercial music label affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., is preparing to release a 10-compact-disc “Anthology of Central Asian Folk Music” over the next three to four years.
		"Central Asian music is regarded still as a kind of exotica by a lot of people [in the West].
		But Levin notes that even when Islamic music is grouped into its own category for commercial sale in the west, traditional music from Central Asia is difficult to find: "Most often, [the Islamic music category] draws on the Middle East, on Egypt, on Lebanon, on North Africa, on Morocco.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/1/e38180cc-a25e-46a3-b47a-d5add39e8f29.html?napage=1 (1061 words)

	Central Asian music on the web
		My main interest is in Kazakh, Uzbek, and Karakalpak music, since those are the people and languages I've been most exposed to in Central Asia.
		Kazakh Music - links to several Kazakh Music sites; this is a site from which I got several of these Kazakh music links.
		Music in the Afghan North - Audio/video clip of a Kazakh woman playing dombra.
	www.huttar.net /lars-kathy/c-asia-music.html (489 words)

	EurasiaNet Civil Society - Central Asia: Ancient European Music Meets Central Asian Masters
		In some ways, these Central Asian masters provide a glimpse at Europe’s own pre-Christian musical and lyrical traditions going as far back as Orpheus -- the ancient Thracian musician and poet of Greek myth, whose songs were said to charm rivers and wild beasts or coax rocks and trees into movement.
		To instrument maker Olivier Pont, the visit by the Central Asians brought revelations about a mysterious bowed lute from his native Brittany -- knowledge of which is lost to history except for the preservation of its form in statues and paintings.
		The Central Eurasia Project aims, through its website, meetings, papers, and grants, to foster a more informed debate about the social, political and economic developments of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/civilsociety/articles/pp080205.shtml (905 words)

	Turkmen Music Loses Out to Hip-Hop
		Serdar Antep, a music professor at Bilkent University in the Turkish capital Ankara, is an expert on Central Asian music who fears that the Turkmen classical style and the oral tradition it preserves are under threat.
		Most of the Turkmen minority in Afghanistan belong to the Ersari tribe and inhabit a thin strip of territory running nearly the entire length of the north of the country, from Herat in the west to Kataghan in the north-east.
		But Araz Baghshi argues that Turkmen music is now in worse shape than it was in the Taleban years, when at least there was a covert demand for it.
	afghanobserver.com /Articles/Tahir_Music.html (913 words)

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