This dissertation is about the music of the Uyghur, a Central Asian Muslim Turkic group of around nine million whose homeland, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, happens now to fall within the northwest borders of the People's Republic of China, of which they have become often r…
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In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians hav…