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| Title: | The hundred thousand fools of God : musical travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) | |
| Abstract: | Through music, The Hundred Thousand Fools of God opens a window onto the cultural and political history of Central Asia in tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet times. Narrated as a travelogue, the book presents the author's encounters with musicians in Tashkent, Bukhara, Khorezm, the mountains and valleys of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan--and Queens, New York, where many Bukharan Jewish musicians have emigrated | |
| Creator: | Levin, Theodore Craig | |
| Date (W3CDTF): | 1996 | |
| Description: | Includes bibliographical (p. [308]-310) and discographical (p. 310-[311]) references and index | |
| Extent: | xvi, [10], 318 p. : ill., maps, music ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) | |
| Identifier: | ISBN: 0253332060 (alk. paper) | |
| ISBN: 025321310X (pbk.) | ||
| Language: | English | |
| Uzbek | ||
| Eastern Tamang | ||
| Turkish | ||
| Persian | ||
| Language (ISO639): | eng | |
| uzb | ||
| taj | ||
| tur | ||
| fas | ||
| Publisher: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press | |
| Spatial Coverage: | Asia, Central | |
| New York (State), New York | ||
| Queens (New York, N.Y.) | ||
| Subject: | ML3758.A783L48 1996 | |
| SDA 02543 | ||
| SSA 00506 | ||
| 780/.958 | ||
| Subject (LCSH): | Ethnomusicology | |
| Music--Asia, Central--History and criticism | ||
| Music--Social aspects--Asia, Central | ||
| Music--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York | ||
| Jews, Bukharan--New York (State)--New York--Music--History and criticism | ||
| Queens (New York, N.Y.) | ||
| Table Of Contents: | Key to Selections on Compact Disc -- Guide to Pronunciation and Transliteration -- Tashkent -- Moscow to Tashkent -- An Uzbek Fellow Traveler -- Plan of the City -- The Conservatory -- A Russian Composer Finds the East -- The Last of the Jadids -- Neofeudalism with a Human Face -- The Singing Mullah -- Frozen Music -- A Traditional Innovator -- The Avatar of a Master -- A Contralto and a Pop Queen -- Bukhara -- The Imaginal City -- A Drive to Bukhara -- A Bukharan Jewish Musical Dynasty -- The Cupola of Islam Redux -- More Frozen Music -- Two Wedding Entertainers -- Going West -- The South: Surxandarya & Qashqadarya -- Karshi -- A "Traveler" in Baysun -- Baxshi Chic in Shirabad -- Xaja Mahmud -- Khorezm -- Across the Kara-Kum -- Khorezm Reimagined -- Two Evenings of Classical Music -- A Baxshi and His Pupil -- Searching for a Zhirau -- Xalfas -- The Upper Zaravshan & Yagnab -- A Mysterious Valley -- The Yagnab Affair -- Trekking for Music -- A Wedding in Dargh -- Wedding Songs -- Poetry in the Afternoon -- Strange Polyphony -- The Zarb -- Shahristan -- A Forbidden Vocation -- Calling Spirits -- The Baxshi's Dance -- More Syncretisms -- Queens -- An Apartment in Forest Hills -- Growing Up Jewish in Kattakurgan -- A Fool of God in Queens | |
| Type (DCMI): | Text | |
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| Archive: | Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics Library | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:gial.edu:13290 | |
| DateStamp: | 2009-05-27 | |
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| Citation: | Levin, Theodore Craig. 1996. Bloomington : Indiana University Press. | |
| Terms: | area_Asia area_Europe country_GB country_NP country_TR dcmi_Text iso639_eng iso639_fas iso639_taj iso639_tur iso639_uzb | |