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The Sound State of Uzbekistan - Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era (Paperback)
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The Sound State of Uzbekistan - Popular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era (Paperback)
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
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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. The Sound
State of Uzbekistan shows the continuing legacy of Soviet concepts
to frame the nexus between music, artists and the state, and
explains the extraordinary potency ascribed to estrada. At the same
time, it challenges classical readings of transition and also
questions common binary models for researching culture in
totalitarian or authoritarian states. Proposing to approach lives
in music under authoritarianism as a form of normality instead, the
author promotes a post-Cold War paradigm in music studies.
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