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Mad Musicologist's "Special Corner"
Сәлеметсіздер ме, Қазақша аздап сөылымин, so please let me continue in English. I am composer and – you will have guessed it – musicologist, and not
only interested in the field of classical music, but as well of the
traditional sources, and popular styles. I came to this first by
the movement „Rock against Racism“ in the early eighties, when I got in
touch with Reggae. Later, I expanded my ethnological studies to West
Africa, and came to love the folk music from the Balkans, that-time
Yugoslavia and neighbouring countries, In 2004, I started my
virtual expeditions to Central Asia – and honest, with the „Iron
Curtain“ being down since 1990, too much time has passed without anyone
but a few specialists in the „golden“ West had any knowledge of Central
Asian Culture and the music from there. So when I had collected
some tunes I felt I had to start issuing radio programmes through a
network of independent local radio stations in Austria, Switzerland,
and Germany, to make at least some people aware of the beautyful and
challenging music I had found. At that time I was invited by the
team of www.atameken.de, the Qazaqi community in Germany, to place the
produced files in a podcast version there. I was not doing so
only to share my findings with that community, but even more to offer
information of those visitors to the site who might need it.
The spoken comment is of course in German, bit I had the texts in English for the listeners from abroad. So what do you think about it, please?
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