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Religious Music of Asia | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
From India to Taiwan, from the bare chants of Islam to the absence of vocals in Jainist worship, the diversity of Asian religious traditions is revealed in...
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Music of Central Asia | Smithsonian Folkways Magazine
Central Asia is commonly understood to encompass the territory of six nations: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan....
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Music of Southeast Asia | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Whether sung in Sanskrit or in Vietnamese, or played on renêt or modern violin, “…music in Southeast Asia is dominated by a well-integrated, highly cultivated...
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Bukhara: Musical Crossroads of Asia | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
In 1990, Theodore Levin and Otanazar Matykubov recorded the musical life of the ancient Central Asian trade center Bukhara. Their goal was to take an audio...
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Music of Central Asia Vol. 4: Bardic Divas: Women’s Voices in Central Asia | Smithsonian Folkways...
Sublime bel canto lyrical songs, the guttural recitative of nomadic oral poetry, lively humoresques, and poignant laments of unrequited love comprise this...
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Music of Central Asia Vol. 7: In the Shrine of the Heart [Preview Video] | Smithsonian Folkways...
Watch a short excerpt from the 27-minute documentary film included in the CD/DVD for Music of Central Asia Vol. 7: In the Shrine of the Heart: Popular Classics...
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