Sound State of Uzbekistan

Taylor & Francis

The Sound State of UzbekistanPopular Music and Politics in the Karimov Era\nAuthor(s): Kerstin Klenke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032241265, 978-1032241265\nSynopsis\nThe 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 Uzbekistans politics [tel], 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. \n\nThe Sound State of Uzbekistan shows the continuing legacy of Soviet concepts to frame the nexus between music, artists and t.