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The Shashmaqam: Uzbekistan's Lost Court Music
In this episode of The Story of Uzbekistan, Lucas and Luna explore the rich tradition of Shashmaqam, the classical court music of Central Asia that flourished in Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva. They trace its origins to the 10th-century scholar Abu Nasr al-Farabi, its golden age under the Bukharan Emirate, and its near-erasure during Soviet times when religious and courtly arts were suppressed. Lucas explains how the maqam system, with its six melodic modes, was preserved orally by Jewish and Muslim musicians, and why the Soviet regime allowed a sanitized version to survive as 'national…
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