Women Musicians of Uzbekistan Ian Duncan what it feels like

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Women Musicians of Uzbekistan Ian Duncan what it feels likeFascinated by women's distinct influence on Uzbekistan's music, Tanya Merchant ventures into Tashkent's post Soviet music scene to place women musicians within the nation's evolving artistic and political arenas. Drawing on fieldwork and music study carried out between 2001 and 2014, Merchant challenges the Western idea of Central Asian women as sequestered and oppressed. Instead, she notes, Uzbekistan's women stand at the forefront of four prominent