When: 3 February 2012, 19:00 
London, SE1 8XX. Admission Free.
Where: The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road
When: 3 February 2012, 19:00 
London, SE1 8XX. Admission Free.
Where: The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road
When: 1-2 December, 2012 
Where: Cambridge, UK
“Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan:
Performance and Belief”
The popular culture of this area is unique and contains many specific genres. Even though in the past many traditional forms of music culture had been adapted to religious purposes, during latter centuries they have taken on a different appearance. Today when the development of TV and radio is global, influencing daily life and transforming the original practice of local performances, music has become an enclave where features of the past and present are intertwined. Popular music conveys a number of references to previous music and its religions connections, and our task is to focus on such cases. Read more »