A tale of musical peregrinations in Central Asia and the search for traditions lost by Bruce Pannier ALL five governments of the former Central Asian republics-Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-have made efforts to renew ties to their pre-communist past and in the course of doing so have sometimes exaggerated that past. While some argue that the Soviet Union substantially […]

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