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Author: Mark Slobin ,
Theodore Levin ,
Aga Khan Music Initiative ,
Saida Daukeyeva
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 2.155kg
ISBN: 9780253017512
ISBN 10: 0253017513
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 05 December 2016
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Music of Central Asia is like its subject: vast, variegated, resonant, and rich in musical traditions that have remained all too closed to outsiders for centuries. The book is both authoritative and innovative, ringing with regional voices and dozens of well-chosen examples of cultural riches to be sampled and savored by both specialists and students. -Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University This magnificent book has been many years in gestation, but it has been worth the wait... No prior knowledge is required to enjoy it. And enjoy is the word. The chapters are short, vivid, and packed with human interest. -BBC Music Magazine The Music of Central Asia is an encyclopedic page turner! This is essential reading for all performers, composers, ethnomusicologists, students, scholars and culturally engaged people everywhere. There has never before been one book that so expertly, vividly and deeply unites the past, present and potential future of an entire swath of the world's musical landscape. -David Harrington, Kronos Quartet
a major addition to the short shelf of books on world music areas. The coverage is extraordinary and unprecedented, providing a valuable and exciting resource for scholars and students to tap the rich music and culture of Central Asia in such an authoritative, comprehensive, and detailed way. It is truly ground-breaking. Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
Author Information
Theodore Levin is Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative. He is the author of Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond (IUP, 2006) and The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (IUP, 1996). Saida Daukeyeva is a Georg Forster Research Fellow (HERMES) at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is author of Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi. Elmira Köchümkulova is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Central Asia in Bishkek. She is author of Respect Graces the Living, Lamentation Graces the Dead: Kyrgyz Funeral Lamentations (in Kyrgyz), and Kyrgyz Herders of Soviet Uzbekistan: Historical and Ethnographic Narratives (in Kyrgyz and English).
