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A Muslim soundscape: the music of Uzbek and Tajik migrant communities in post-Soviet Moscow

A talk by Dr Razia Sultanova

December 5, 2019
Thursday at 7pm GMT
Admission is free but registration is essential via Eventbrite.

Yunus Emre Institute in London, 10 Maple Street, W1T 5HA, London, UK


This talk focuses on how changes in Moscow’s soundscape are an indicator of the broadening of the social, religious and cultural definition of present-day city.

The Soviet Union was the last great world empire, with borders stretched from Europe to Asia. Within these borders lived some 120 ethnic groups divided into 15 republics and various autonomous regions, an overall population of nearly 300 million. After the collapse of the USSR, non-Russian peoples faced multiple problems. Within Russia’s borders alone it created up to 15-16 million migrant workers. Recent official figures indicate that some 2 million Central Asian migrant workers now live in Moscow, making it ‘Europe’s largest Muslim city’. How does music help one adapt to new places and a new mode of life?

Dr Razia Sultanova is a musicologist and cultural anthropologist. Born in Russia, after growing up in Uzbekistan, she studied and consequently worked at both the Uzbek and Moscow State Conservatories. Her primary areas of research are Central Asian and Middle Eastern culture. Areas of interest include studies on ‘Islam and music’, and ‘Gender and music.


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