Description: Preface Acknowledgments Key to Selections on Compact Disc Guide to Pronunciation and Transliteration 1. 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 2. 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 3. The South: Surxandarya and Qashqadarya Karshi A "Traveler" in Baysun Baxhi Chic in Shirabad (last a with circumflex) Xaja Mahmun (first a in Xaja with circumflex) 4. Khorezm Across the Kara-Kum Khorezm Reimagined Two Evenings of Classical Music A Baxshi and His Pupil Searching for a Zhirau Xalfas 5. The Upper Zaravshan and Yagnab (final a on Yagnab with a circumflex) A Mysterious Valley The Yagnab Affair (Yagnab with circumflex on final a) Trekking for Music A Wedding in Dargh Wedding Songs Poetry in the Afternoon Strange Polyphony The Zarb 6. Shahristan A Forbidden Vocation Calling Spirits The Baxshi's Dance More Syncretisms 7. Queens An Apartment in Forest Hills Growing Up Jewish in Kattakurgan A Fool of God in Queens Glossary Notes Bibliographic and Discographic Guide Index

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