Friday: Playing from the Heart: Performance and Lecture by Uzbek Dutar Player and US Ethnomusicologist
Friday, February 9, 4pm-5pm
UMC Room 425
Professor of Music Ruzibi Khodjaeva of the Uzbekistan State Conservatory in Tashkent will demonstrate her instrument, the dutar, and Professor of Music, UC Santa Cruz Tanya Merchant will accompany her on the dutar and also explain the music, its traditions, and the gendered practices of dutar ensembles vs. solo dutar performance. Dutar is a lute used in Iran and throughout Central Asia. Prof. Merchant has written about Prof. Khodjaeva in her book, Women Musicians of Uzbekistan: From Courtyard to Conservatory (U of Illinois Press, 2015).
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, GSLL, Musicology, Women & Gender Studies.