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The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era

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Series: Soas Studies in Music

Pop/RockWorld Music

ISBN10: 1138486140
ISBN13: 9781138486140
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 18 2019
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Sound State of Uzbekistan: Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era is a pioneering study of the intersection between popular music and state politics in Central Asia. Based on 20 months of fieldwork and archival research in Tashkent, this book explores a remarkable era in Uzbekistan's politics (2001-2016), when the Uzbek government promoted a rather unlikely candidate to the prominent position of state sound: estrada, a genre of popular music and a musical relic of socialism. The political importance it attached to estrada was matched by the establishment of an elaborate bureaucratic apparatus for state oversight.

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