Russian scholars who began studying indigenous music in Central Asia in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 were the first to use the term “classical music
” to designate Central Asian maqām. Local scholars and musicians later adopted the terms “classical music
” and “professional oral tradition music
” to describe three distinct but related vocal and instrumental repertoires linked to the cities of Bukhara, Khiva, and Qoqand, all of which lie within the borders of...
