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Tajik music is closely related to other Central Asian forms of music. The classical music is shashmaqam , which is also distinctive in Uzbekistan . [ 1 ] Southern Tajikistan has a distinctive form of folk music called falak, which is played at celebrations for weddings , circumcisions and other occasions.
Upon the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan retained the Soviet-era regional anthem, lyrics and all, as its national anthem for a time before replacing the lyrics in 1994. [2]
Uzbekistan began to learn about the Tajik shashmaqam, and Tajikistan learnt of the Uzbek shashmaqom. This has survived to the present, but a surge of nationalism in Uzbekistan may change that: singers on the radio in Bukhara, a city perfectly bilingual in Uzbek and Tajik, are using only the Uzbek texts in their shashmaqom music broadcasts. [1]
Zoya Mikhailovna Tajikova (born 14 September 1935) is a Tajik musicologist.. Zoya Tajikova was born on 14 September 1935 in Dushanbe, then part of the Soviet Union.She graduated from the Tashkent Conservatory in 1959 and was elected a member of the Composers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1963.
This list of Tajik musicians includes notable Tajik musicians. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Location of Badakhshan, divided between Tajikistan in the north and Afghanistan in the south. Badakhshan is a region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan with a unique musical heritage, especially that of the remote Pamiri Ismailis.
Zafar Nozim (Tajik: Зафар Нозим, Persian: ظفر ناظم, Russian: Зафар Нозим; 2 June 1940 – 3 August 2010) was a folk singer from Tajikistan. He was a popular performer of Tajik national songs. [1] He was known as the "Tajik Pavarotti". [2]
Traditional centers of Tajik literature were Samarkand and Bukhara, however these cities are now in Uzbekistan. In recent history, Tajik literature has been predominantly social realist. Though Tajiks do not draw a line, between their own literature and general Persian literature, there have been a few notable Tajik writers and poets. The ...