There can be no doubt; lumping musical collections into a pile based on nothing more than a huge, and often vague, geographical region seems nothing more than a convenient way to compartmentalize entire swaths of earth, music and the various peoples who perform it. It’s not like one would review avant-jazz saxophonist Daniel Carter alongside North Carolina ballad singer Dellie Norton just because they were both from the United States. It’s almost as ridiculous as writing about Kazak traditional music from Western China as Chinese, rather than, well, Central Asian. But then, it is Chinese, and Kazak, and Central Asian, even if China isn’t technically a Central Asian country. – More –
via Music of Central Asia – Smithsonian Folkways / a RootsWorld review of World Music.
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