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	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)

	Music of Uzbekistan - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Uzbekistan is a Central Asian country inhabited primarily by Turkic Uzbeks.
		Uzbek classical music is called shashmaqam, which arose in Bukhara in the late 16th century when that city was a regional capital.
		Interludes of spoken Sufi poetry interrupt the music, typically beginning at a low register and gradually ascending to a climax before calming back down to the beginning tone.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_Uzbekistan (155 words)

	The Musical Nomad - Music Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The music of Uzbekistan remains exotic and untained, still remotely related to the droning melodies of the Middle East and Persia.
		In the past music was closely connected to the art of the bards, storytellers who would travel from town to town giving dramatic recitals of epics and poems.
		Ensembles in Uzbekistan consist of tanbur or tar (plucked lutes), ghijak, chang (struck zither), naj (transverse flute) and daira (tambourine).
	www.bbc.co.uk /nomad/Pages/musuz.htm (210 words)

	Persian music at AllExperts
		Persian music or Moosiqi Asil is the traditional and indigenous music of Persia and Persian-speaking countries: musiqi, the science and art of music, and moosiqi, the sound and performance of music (Sakata 1983).
		Iranian Classical Music is improvised and is based on a series of modal scales and tunes which must be memorized.
		Instruments used in Persian classical music include the bowed spike-fiddle kamancheh, the goblet drum tombak, the end-blown flute ney, the frame drum daf, the long-necked lutes tar, setar, tambur, dotar, and the dulcimer santur.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pe/persian_music.htm (1318 words)

	Events - Arts and culture - British Council - Uzbekistan
		The aim of our Alternative Music Festival was to provide a showcase for the creativity of the most talented young alternative musicians living in Uzbekistan.
		In April 2004 we were pleased to introduce audiences of the IXth International Festival of Contemporary Music to an exhibition of the lithographic art of UK artist Henry Moore.
		The programme of events in Uzbekistan included a performance in the Centre for rehabilitation of disabled children “Falak Nury”, a “master class” for students in the State Coservatoire as well as a high-energy jam in a night-club with musicians from Tashkent's independent music scene.
	www.britishcouncil.org /sr/uzbekistan-arts-events.htm (804 words)

	Identity and Exoticism in Sevara Nazarkhan's Yol Bolsin by Tanya Merchant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the music, the artwork, and the publicity on the international release, I posit that most European and American consumers do not locate her in Uzbekistan; most non-Uzbek listeners position her, I surmise, within some nebulous exotic female space.
		In both the international and domestic music scenes, it is the mixing of European and Uzbek aesthetics that creates this multiplicity, which seems to be the result of Nazarkhan seeking an opportunity to be both modern and traditional simultaneously.
		Despite the music industry's moves toward balancing their economic and the creative relationships with non-European or American artists, and the work in the academy against colonial and Orientalist norms, Orientalist thought seems to still have a place in public life.
	www.imageandnarrative.be /worldmusicb_advertising/tanyamerchant.htm (4335 words)

	Sevara Nazarkhan Downloads :: calabashmusic.com
		Unlike the west which has no musical equivalent, centuries-old maqams cycles of vocalisation and instrumentation are performed and danced to by old and young alike.
		This music has never been rediscovered or benefited from a "back to the roots" retro movement, since it is as current today as it was hundreds of years ago.
		With the line between entertainment and ritual blurred, music played at toi, wedding parties or family and community festivities, and at bairam, national or regional celebrations, has been incorporated into the full body of life, not relegated to consumer consumption.
	sevaranazarkhan.calabashmusic.com (913 words)

	Cornell Music Library Homepage
		Almajano has a slightly broad vibrato (only a problem for listeners accustomed to the Kirkby sound) and possesses technical virtuosity enough to perform this music with seeming ease; she is able to move between passionate, playful and ruminative affects at the lightning pace this repertory demands.
		Seiler’s performance of this musically and technically difficult work is excellent, and the work’s knotty contrapuntal complexity takes on a new form in the close interplay between the solo and orchestral violins.
		The music is performed on traditional komuz (three stringed lute), flutes, stick fiddles, and various types of Jew’s harps.
	www.library.cornell.edu /music/Newandnotable9.htm (1124 words)

	Uzbekistan music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A adopted legislature was December uzbekistan music the in by new constitution 1992.
		Karimov brought from uzbekistan music human international criticism strong regime rights organizations.Uzbekistan demanded that uzbekistan music the U.Today and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, is Kyrgyzstan by bordered Tajikistan.The is uzbekistan music of judicial civil, the highest the criminal Supreme administrative body Uzbekistan of of Republic Court and law.
		Uzbekistan to other Central only all of also but border Asian larger is only uzbekistan music Central the of one state Asian states the not the four.
	movable25.275mb.com /uzbekistan/music.html (4021 words)

	Uzbekistan: National Geographic World Music
		Uzbekistan, with a population of some 27 million people, is Central Asia's most populous country and its most musically diverse.
		Women's music and dance traditions are highly developed in the towns and rural settlements of the Ferghana Valley, in eastern Uzbekistan.
		The most salient characteristic of social life in Uzbekistan is the penchant for festivity and celebration.
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/uzbekistan_624?fs=www3.nationalgeographic.com&fs=plasma.nationalgeographic.com (602 words)

	Studio C Podcast - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Kurt Wolff, Senior Editor at CNET Download.com Music, wants you to know that just because he wrote The Rough Guide to Country Music, that doesn't mean he only has ears for George Jones and Johnny Paycheck.
		Currently he also hangs around the CNET music blog Living in Stereo.
		Guest host Peter Gavin is an associate producer at Download.com Music as well as a producer of his own music under the name Moped.
	music.download.com /2001-12619_32-0.html (279 words)

	Classical Music of Uzbekistan - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		Musicians from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and Jewish musicians from Bukhara (Bukhoro) live together in the cosmopolitan Bukhara-Samarqand region, participating in many of the same music traditions.
		These include the shashmaqam, a modal music system based on a vocal repertoire formerly performed for the Bukharan court.
		It was codified into its present form during the 18th century.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461524643_761551989_-1_1/Classical_Music_of_Uzbekistan.html (118 words)

	Uzbekistan4
		Uzbekistan’s ancient cities are endowed with some of the world’s most striking examples of Islamic architecture.
		The music of Uzbekistan is similar to that of the Middle East.
		The music allows for individual nuance and creative variation, although the rhythms generally follow verse structures.
	www.msu.edu /~almardan/Uzbekistan/4/Uzbekistan4.html (789 words)

	Turkic Music for Sale - Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Tuva
		Music from the Oasis Towns of Central Asia, by Uyghur musicians from Xinjiang
		After several years as a soloist in Radio Uzbekistan's Shashmaqam Ensemble, her plangent voice and command of the demanding Uzbek and Tajik (Persian-derived) repertoires led to performances in Sweden and Spain and at several festivals in France.
		Kazakhstan - Music from Almati, by Wolf Dietrich.
	www.khazaria.com /turkic/cds.html (1201 words)

	Uzbekistan, People of Uzbekistan
		This type of music has similarities with Persian and Sufi music; in fact Sufi poetry is a strong component of the shashmaqam.
		The color represents water and sky; white is symbolic of peace; green stands for fertility and red represents the people of the nation.
		Economy of Uzbekistan : despite having a fragile economy with limited resources, the factors that boost Uzbekistan's economy are a host of things that can bring in large revenues if organized well.
	www.mapsofworld.com /country-profile/uzbekistan-economy-people-culture-flag.html (308 words)

	Kazakh Adoptive Families: Music
		They dress in native costume, play ethnic musical instruments, and have a slide show with pictures from their towns and countryside.
		By drawing on the musicality of its neighboring central Asian minorities, this Russian industry was provided with the sounds to succeed.
		They also use in instrumental music a flute (the garghy tüydük), a kind of clarinet (the dilli tüydük), and a Jew's harp (the qopuz).
	kazakhadoptivefamilies.com /music2.html (3000 words)

	Music 4 Games -- The Future of Rock n' Roll & Interactive Entertainment. Est. 1999.
		The music composed by Nobuo Uematsu is being arranged for the portable console by Junya Nakano and Kenichiro Fukui.
		Music composed and produced by Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori.
		Music by Rom Di Prisco and Jesper Kyd.
	www.music4games.net (256 words)

	"uzbekistan" - Shopping.com
		Uzbekistan Nylon Flag 2 Ft. X 3 Ft.
		I. Karimov - Uzbekistan on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to Stability and Progress
		Uzbekistan: Art Of The Dotar by Abdorahim Hamidov/ Khodaverdiev
	www.shopping.com /xCC-uzbekistan--price_range_20_40 (388 words)

	World Music Uzbekistan - Uzbek Music
		Meanwhile, the music on Minstrels and Lovers is played by amateurs who are part of daily life and thus reach a wider audience.
		The imaginary caravan passes through Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, encountering nomads, mystics, and bards along the way.
		The instruments are scratchy, pungent, and/or serene, while the singers weave a potent spell out of a millennium's worth of slow-changing rural and urban vistas.
	www.almudo.com /Uzbekistan-Music.htm (239 words)

	Central Asia: Western Students Get First Chance To Study Region's Music - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But at the University of London, within the Department of Music in the School of Oriental and African Studies, a new course has begun for ethnomusicology students focusing on the social meaning of music in Central Asia.
		Taught by Razia Sultanova, a native of Uzbekistan, the course takes students through musical traditions from Ghengis Khan in the 12th century to Tamerlane in the 15th century and Babur in the 16th century.
		She said it is ironic that the official sanctioning of folk music by communist authorities from Turkmenistan to Tajikistan helped keep the music alive in people's hearts.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/02/281bfcb6-c4b8-4020-b5e4-218c606b5663.html (775 words)

	Central Asia Downloads - Download Central Asia Music - Download Central Asia MP3s
		The result is an amazingly diverse tradition that ranges from the classical music of Uzbekistan to the pastoral songs of Kazakhs and Kyrgys.
		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)

	The New York Times > Arts > Music > Critic's Notebook: This Is the Sound of Globalization
		In the music, boundaries are wide open, curiosity leads to cooperation, memories are long but the lessons of history are positive ones.
		World music, that happily vague category, encompasses raw field recordings and slick non-Western pop, traditional music and countless twists on traditionalism; the term is also applied to everything from crosscultural fusions to club music with exotic samples to new-age meditation albums.
		Harutyunyan sustains the almost glacial melodies in a voice both kindly and doleful, and for most of the album, she is accompanied by only an instrument or two; there are long stretches that her voice shares with only one unchanging note from a reed flute.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/04/15/arts/music/15glob.html?ex=1271217600&en=fcb7831144025b78&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (823 words)

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		Fikret Amirov (1922-1984) was the first Azeri composer of classical music to write mugams for symphony orchestras.
		Mugam belongs to the system of modal music and has close ties to the Persian and Arabian musical tradition.
		The Uighurs in Xinjian (Sinkiang) call this musical development Muqam,”; the Uzbeks and Tajiks call it “Maqom” (also “Shasmaqom”), while the Arabs, Persians and Turks call it “Maqam.” In Azerbaijan the word is Mugam.
	www.azworld.org /music.htm (660 words)

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		Calabash Music™ is the ultimate global music destination giving easy access to all the great, but hard-to-find, music from around the world.
		When our artists sell their music directly to you, they keep half the money from each sale and they avoid the high costs of manufacturing, marketing and distributing their music on CDs.
		Calabash Music and National Geographic are pleased to announce a partnership that provides an immediate on-demand listening, viewing and purchasing playground for fans of world music.
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	Umid Presidential Scholarship Program Official Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Uzbekistan such as the country culture, traditions and economy, Umid program, and a lot more.
		Forum page for Uzbekistan Online Forum, in which you will be able to participate in hot topics created by other Forum members.
		Visit our UzDessert portal to listen and watch Uzbek music, to read the latest news and trends in Uzbekistan music industry, to find more information about Uzbekistan cuisine, history, music, fine arts, cinema, literature and fashion.
	www.umid.uz /Main/index.html (289 words)

	Uzbekistan facts, Uzbekistan travel videos, flags, photos - National Geographic
		Uzbeks, third largest ethnic group of the former Soviet Union (after Russians and Ukrainians), descend from Turkic people and are rooted in the Sunni Muslim faith.
		The Aral Sea, fed by rivers extensively tapped for irrigation, has shrunk to a fraction of its 1960s extent—and may become a vast desert by the year 2018.
		From exploring Uzbekistan to rafting the Mekong River, find out what are National Geographic Adventure Magazine's best trips for 2006.
	www3.nationalgeographic.com /places/countries/country_uzbekistan.html (468 words)

	Islamic World.Net: Countries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Germany
		Internews Uzbekistan - describes non-government media including TV and radio stations and gives country overview.
		Uzbekistan: music of khorezm - Music of Khorezm explores the diverse traditional sounds of one of Central Asia’s ancient cultural regions.
	islamic-world.net /countries/uzbekistan.htm (167 words)

	International Music Coucil
		RESONANCE is published by the International Music Council twice a year with the financial support of UNESCO and the generous sponsorship of Flevodruk (Netherlands).
		The publication will be under the editorship of an international editorial committee consisting of experts in the fields of human rights, intellectual property rights, music, culture and development.
		The title "RESONANCE" was the result of a name-finding competition; it had been prposed by Vassili Zagorski, composer, then Secretary of the USSR Union of Composers and member of the IMC Executive Committee.
	www.unesco.org /imc/site.php?typ=2&subsite=24 (1130 words)

	Well-Rounded Radio: Episode 021 : Brad Powell of Calabash Music
		I first learned about Brad Powell and Calabash Music from a friend of my friend, Marion Seymour, ironically, both of whom live in Seattle, Washington--a city where Powell and I both once lived before both returning east and now living in Boston.
		Calabash Music's tagline is "The World's First Fair Trade Music Company" and their site says it best: "Our business model presents a new opportunity for sustainable economic development from independent music sales in developing regions around the world.
		Calabash Music has also received high marks from a number of media outlets and musicians themselves: Global Rhythm Magazine wrote "The impressive Calabash Music web site is becoming an especially hot destination, providing an easily navigated and encyclopedic one-stop for finding out about world music talent and purchasing their recordings.
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