NPR

Amid Soviet Central Asia's boogie nights, the rhythms of a region's future

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...
NPR

A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades. About a decade ago, music producer Vik Sohonie was in New ...
KUOW

Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology dislays the region's vast diversity

A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz. KUOW is ...
The Durango Herald

Performing the music of defiance at Fort Lewis College

Gubaidulina’s work is not the kind of thing you put on during morning yoga,” wrote Zachary Woolfe in his March 13 New York ...