Tajikmusic is closely related to Uzbek music and other Central Asian forms. The classical music is shashmaqam, which is very similar to Uzbek music. Southern Tajikistan has a distinctive form of folk music called falak, which is played at celebrtions for weddings, circumcisions and other occasions.
List of Tajik musicians:
Barno Itzhakova
Davlatmand Kholor
References
Broughton, Simon and Sultanova, Razia. "Bards of the Golden Road". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific, pp 24-31. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. ISBN 1-85828-636-0
The classical music is shashmaqam, which is very similar to Uzbek music [1].
Southern Tajikistan has a distinctive form of folk music called falak, which is played at celebrations for weddings, circumcisions and other occasions.
Tajik folk music is traditionally divided into three styles, Pamir (Mountain-Badakhshan province), Central Kuhistoni (Gissar, Kulyab, Garm provinces) and Sogdiana's northern style; the latter is part of the same musical culture as the adjacent regions of Uzbekistan (Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya).
Tajikistan is officially a republic, and holds elections for the President and Parliament.
Tajikistan is the poorest country of the ex-USSR and one of the poorest countries in the world.
The culture of Tajikistan was originally shared with that of Uzbekistan, but during Communist rule, the cultural fabric of the region was disrupted by the Soviet leadership imposing artificial boundaries and the notion of nation-state - alien to the region - on the area.
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