Corpus : Musical Treasures of the Silk Road House

Title: Musical Treasures of the Silk Road House
Description: Produced by Alma Kunanbaeva and Izaly Zemtsovsky. Recorded and mastered by Michael Cogan, Bay Records. English translations by Scott Bartling. Package design by Sara Glaser.

All five discs have two logos – that of Silk Road House and that of The Christensen Fund, whose generous grant made it possible to accomplish this project.
Code: CNRSMH_SilkRoad
Fonds: Collections phonographiques de référence en ethnomusicologie

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Title Site de la Silk Road House Description Silk Road House is a non-profit organization created to promote and support an impressive array of diverse ethnic cultural traditions. The main goals of the Silk Road House are: - to create a center for the collection of pertinent cultural and historical information ; - to provide a place where creative activities can bring to life the traditions of the Silk Road here in United States ; - to celebrate the Silk Road's tradition of hospitality ; Silk Road House symbolizes the connections, communications and bonds between peoples and cultures united by the Silk Road concept, and at the same time, a real network of the modern day contacts between those peoples and cultures. The Silk Road House is a welcoming cultural center where everyone who might be interested could find a wide range of accurate information concerning the history, culture, and everyday life of Silk Road countries. Credits

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Title: Site de la Silk Road House
Description: Silk Road House is a non-profit organization created to promote and support an impressive array of diverse ethnic cultural traditions. The main goals of the Silk Road House are:
- to create a center for the collection of pertinent cultural and historical information ;
- to provide a place where creative activities can bring to life the traditions of the Silk Road here in United States ;
- to celebrate the Silk Road's tradition of hospitality ;

Silk Road House symbolizes the connections, communications and bonds between peoples and cultures united by the Silk Road concept, and at the same time, a real network of the modern day contacts between those peoples and cultures. The Silk Road House is a welcoming cultural center where everyone who might be interested could find a wide range of accurate information concerning the history, culture, and everyday life of Silk Road countries.
Credits

Title	Digitized	Description	Code
Elmira Janabergenova, Kazakhstan. Songs from the Aral Sea			CNRSMH_E_2014_033_001
Bidas Rustembekov. Kazakh Terme. Sung Poetry of Wisdom			CNRSMH_E_2014_034_001
Faik Chelebi, Tar. The Classical Muğam of Azerbaijan in Solo Instrumental Performance			CNRSMH_E_2014_035_001
The Epic Körughly. The Kazakh version. Performed by Bidas Rustembekov			CNRSMH_E_2014_036_001
An Anthology of Kazakh Epic Songs and Dombra Kyuis [recording] and A Journey to Epic Qyzylorda: Three Kazakh Jyraus [video]			CNRSMH_E_2014_037_001