Musical Argonauts of Central Asia
The Aga Khan Music Programme's Quest to Revitalize Cultural Heritage
Series: Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 2 December 2025
- ISBN 9780253074430
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 72 color illus., 4 b&w tables 700
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Long description:
Musical Argonauts of Central Asia tells the story of the Aga Khan Music Programme (AKMP) and its sustained efforts to revitalize Central Asian musical heritage in the wake of seven decades of Soviet rule.
Theodore Levin, who worked with the program since its inception, offers an insider's account of how the AKMP's development tactics and strategies were formulated and their outcomes assessed. In doing so, Levin addresses fundamental questions about the power of music and what NGOs can do to help shape music's social impact: In what sense are music, musicians, and musical life amenable to interventions by a development organization? What do such interventions contribute to the quality of life of their beneficiaries? And what does an ethical development intervention in music look like? In chronicling the work of the AKMP, Levin establishes the bona fides of a type of institutional cultural activism that isn't captured by rubrics such as applied ethnomusicology, public folklore, and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage.
Featuring case studies of country-specific interventions in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Musical Argonauts of Central Asia provides a practical roadmap for aspiring activist ethnomusicologists and folklorists that models best practices, analyzes failures, and advocates for the role that ethnographers can and should play in international development organizations.
Table of Contents:
Accessing Audiovisual Materials
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
List of Acronyms
Preface
Prologue: The Conundrum of Cultural Heritage
1. The Prince and the Ethnomusicologist
2. Revitalizing Central Asian Music
3. The Little NGO that Could: Centre Ustatshakirt and the Future of the Past in Kyrgyzstan
4. Putting Central Asian Music on the World Stage
5. Measuring Music's Impact
6. The Aga Khan Master Musicians (AKMM): Pluralists, Orientalists, Cultural Appropriators, or All of the Above?
7. Inventing a Music Prize: The Aga Khan Music Awards
8. Taking Stock: The Ethnography of Impact
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
