Ebook: Women musicians of Uzbekistan : from courtyard to conservatory
Author: Merchant Tanya
- Genre: Art // Music
- Tags: Music, Women musicians, Uzbekistan, Feminism and music -- Uzbekistan, Music -- Social aspects -- Uzbekistan, Music -- Uzbekistan -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Music -- Uzbekistan -- 21st century -- History and criticism, Uzbekistan -- Social life and customs, Feminism and music, Manners and customs, Music, Music -- Social aspects, Women musicians, Uzbekistan
- Series: New perspectives on gender in music
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- City: Urbana
- Language: English
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Influences by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, this work ventures into Tashkent's post-Soviet music scene to place women musicians within the nation's evolving artistic and political arenas. Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, the text challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, the work notes the ways Uzbekistan's Read more...