Song from the Land of Fire: The Music of Azerbaijan in the Twentieth Century (Research Brief)

My research involves the music and musical culture of Azerbaijan, focusing on the processes of Westernization, Sovietization, and secularization throughout the most of the twentieth century and on drastic changes such as de-secularization and liberation from Russian influences at the end of the century.

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Inna Naroditskaya, of Northwestern University, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.