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The spring issue of Smithsonian Folkways Magazine chronicles the cross-cultural collaborations that resulted in Rainbow, Volume 8 of the Music of Central Asia Series.
Read about how Azerbaijani singers Alim and Fargana Qasimov, Afghan rubâb player Homayun Sakhi, and American group Kronos Quartet moved beyond superficial grooves towards a deeper music connection.
The Music of Central Asia series, a co-production of Smithsonian Folkways and the Aga Khan Music Initiative, currently features nine CD/DVD sets.
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Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a trivia question; email your answer, name, and address with the subject "April Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways@si.edu by May 1st, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer will win a free CD of his or her choice!
April Question: The tar, a plucked lute featured on the Music of Central Asia, Vol. 8, is widely considered the national instrument of what country?
Congratulations to last month's winner, Joanne, from Santa Rosa, CA, who was randomly selected after correctly answering "Afghanistan" to March's question: The rubâb, a lute-like instrument with a mixture of melody, drone, and sympathetic strings, is featured in the music from this Central Asian country? Hint — Homayun Sakhi plays rubâb on three volumes of the Music of Central Asia Series.
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