The music of Central Asia
By: edited by Theodore Levin, Saida Daukeyeva, Elmira Köchümkulova
Contributors: Daukeeva, Saida Diasovna, editor; Kȯchu̇mkulova, Ėlmira, editor; Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Music Initiative
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780253017512
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Textbooks; History and criticism; Music; World music
Notes: Publication supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

"Timeline of Central Asian history": pages xxi-xxii; "Musical instrument glossary": pages 597-608; "Glossary of terms": pages 609-619.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and culture in Central Asia.; title: Music in Central Asia : an overview  -- Theodore Levin; title: Musical instruments in Central Asia -- Theodore Levin; title: The nomadic world.; title: Who are the nomads of Central Asia?  -- Theodore Levin; title: Introduction to Central Asian epic traditions  -- Elmira Köchümkulova; title: The Kyrgyz epic Manas  -- Elmira Köchümkulova; title: Oral epic in Kazakhstan : Körughly and a dynasty of great jyraus  -- Uljan Baibosynova; title: Music of the Karakalpaks, part 1.; title: The epic world of the Karakalpaks : jyrau and baqsy  -- Frédéric Léotar ;; title: Music of the Karakalpaks, part 2.; title: Qyssakhan : performer of written and oral literature  -- Kalmurza Kurbanov and Saida Daukeyeva; title: The art of the Turkmen bagshy  -- Jamilya Gurbanova; title: The Turkmen dutar  -- David Fossum; title: Kyrgyz wisdom songs : terme yrlary  -- Elmira Köchümkulova; title: Aqyns and improvised-poetry competitions among the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz  -- Elmira Köchümkulova and Jangül Qojakhmetova; title: Singing traditions of the Kazakhs  -- Alma Kunanbaeva; title: Kyrgyz funeral laments  -- Elmira Köchümkulova; title: Kyrgyz wedding songs  -- Elmira Köchümkulova; title: Narrative instrumental music, part 1.; title: Kazakh küi  -- Saida Daukeyeva; title: Narrative instrumental music, part 2.; title: Kyrgyz küü  -- Nurlanbek Nyshanov; title: Kyrgyz jaw harps  -- Nurlanbek Nyshanov; title: The Kazakh qobyz : between tradition and modernity  -- Saida Daukeyeva; title: Dombyra performance, migration, and memory among Mongolian Kazakhs -- Saida Daukeyeva; title: The world of sedentary dwellers.; title: Patterns of culture : sedentary dwellers  -- Theodore Levin; title: Maqom traditions of the Tajiks and Uzbeks  -- Will Sumits and Theodore Levin; title: The Uyghur muqam  -- Rachel Harris; title: New images of Azerbaijani mugham in the twentieth century  -- Aida Huseynova; title: Popular classics : traditional singer-songwriters in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan  -- Theodore Levin; title: Religious music and chant in the culture of sedentary dwellers  -- Aleksandr Djumaev; title: Sufism and the ceremony of zikr in Ghulja  -- Mukaddas Mijit; title: Dastan performance among the Uyghurs  -- Rahile Dawut and Elise Anderson; title: Female musicians in Uzbekistan : otin-oy, dutarchi, and maqomchi  -- Razia Sultanova; title: Music in the city of Bukhara  -- Theodore Levin and Aleksandr Djumaev; title: Music and culture in Badakhshan  -- Theodore Levin; title: The maddoh tradition of Badakhshan  -- Benjamin D. Koen; title: Qasoid-khonī in the Wakhan valley of Badakhshan  -- Chorshanbe Goibnazarov; title: Falak : spiritual songs of the mountain Tajiks -- Faroghat Azizi; title: Central Asian music in the age of globalization.; title: Revitalizing musical traditions : the Aga Khan Music Initiative  -- Theodore Levin; title: Cultural renewal in Kyrgyzstan : neo-traditionalism and the new era in Kyrgyz music  -- Raziya Syrdybaeva; title: Popular music in Uzbekistan  -- Kerstin Klenke; title: Innovation in tradition : some examples from music and theater in Uzbekistan  -- Aleksandr Djumaev; title: Tradition-based popular music in contemporary Tajikistan -- Federico Spinetti.