Russian
scholars who began studying indigenous music in Central Asia in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution 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...
