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Welcome to the library research guide for Music Cultures of Central Asia. This guide will help you find materials that you need to complete your course assignments.
This page contains are links to catalog records for books and reference resources and links to full-text versions of articles (available via BGSU EZ Proxy), for general works on Musics of Central Asia. See the other pages in this guide for information about web databases, reference sources, and sound recordings.
Oral Tradition and Epics of Central Asia
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by ISBN: 9780801497179Publication Date: 1991eBook. Also available in print (GR72.L66 1991)
Diasporic Communities
Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish music and musicians in New York by ISBN: 9780199379033Publication Date: 2014eBook, also available in print (ML3776 .R266 2014)
Musical Instruments
The Anthropology of the Body by Call Number: GN298 .A57ISBN: 0121032507Publication Date: 1978Contains the article “Movement Patterns in Playing the Herati Dutar" by John Baily.
Musical Ethics and Islam: the art of playing the ney by ISBN: 9780252084881Publication Date: 2020eBook
Music in Central Asia (General)
Central Asian Music: essays in the history of the music of the peoples of the U.S.S.R. by Call Number: ML300.5.B4413ISBN: 0819540838Publication Date: 1975-05-15
Sounds of the Silk Road: Musical Instruments of Asia by Call Number: ML525 .C53 2005ISBN: 9780878466887Publication Date: 2005-08-15
The Hundred Thousand Fools of God by Call Number: ML3758.A783 L48 1996ISBN: 0253332060Publication Date: 1997
Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia by Call Number: ML3916 .M873 2009ISBN: 9780754634577Publication Date: 2009
Turkic Soundscapes: from shamanic voices to hip-hop by Call Number: ML3545 .T87 2018ISBN: 9781138062405Publication Date: 2018
Music, Sound, and Spirituality
Sufi Music of India and Pakistan by Call Number: ML3197.Q74 1987ISBN: 0521267676Publication Date: 1987
Islamic Alternatives: Non-Mainstream Religion in Persianate Societies by ISBN: 9783447107792Publication Date: 2017-02-22eBook
Contemporary Music: Pop, Tradition-Based, Avant-Garde, and Hybrid Styles
Global Goes Local: Popular Culture in Central Asia by Call Number: DS12 .C73 2002ISBN: 0774808756Publication Date: 2003Contains "Cassettes, Bazaars and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur Music Industry in Xinjiang, China” by Rachel Harris
Red Stars: personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 by Call Number: ML3497 .M143 2001ISBN: 0773521062Publication Date: 2001-03-29
