Hundred Thousand Fools of God Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York)

Name: Hundred Thousand Fools of God Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York)
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ISBN: 9780253213105

ISBN-10: 025321310X

ISBN-13: 9780253213105

Edition: 1999

Authors: Theodore Levin, Theodore Craig Levin

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"This erudite, absorbing volume chronicles the travels of ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin through urban and rural Transoxania... He writes in evocative, imaginative, personalized prose that vividly captures the flavor of his everyday experiences, providing plush visual detail, trenchant character profiles, attention to perplexing local hospitality codes and the shaping hand of gender, throughout." -- Slavic Review"... extremely informative, using music as a platform for a much wider discussion of cultural and political issues." -- Times Literary Supplement, London"The subject is music, but Levin uses it to cast a wider light, revealing places of considerable sorrow long hidden in the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144

Theodore Levin is Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and author of The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York) (IUP, 1997).Valentina Sï¿½zï¿½kei is Senior Academic Officer of the Tuvan Institute for Humanities Research in Kyzyl, Tuva. She is author of three books on Tuvan music, including The Musical Culture of Tuva in the Twentieth Century (in Russian).