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• PopQ-popThe Kazakhstani pop industry that has, since NINETY ONE's 2015 debut, applied K-pop's training-and-choreography model to the Kazakh language. The Q stands for Qazaq. NINETY ONE, Ziruza, Ally, MADINA, Say Mo, Alem.
• Folk & WorldKazakh KüiThe Kazakh dombra-solo storytelling instrumental tradition — carrier of nineteenth-century steppe history, Soviet-era orchestralised at Almaty's Kurmangazy State Orchestra.
• Folk & WorldShashmaqamThe six-maqam classical suite tradition of Bukhara — carried for centuries by Bukharan Jewish court musicians, later Soviet-institutionalised, UNESCO-listed 2003.
• ClassicalUyghur Twelve MuqamThe 12 great suites of the Uyghur classical tradition — instrumental, vocal and dance music in a single 8-12 hour cycle from Xinjiang.
• Folk & WorldUrtin Duu (Long Song)Mongolian long-song — single syllables stretched into ornament-laden lines of fifteen or twenty seconds, evoking steppe and sky.
• Folk & WorldMorin KhuurMongolian two-string bowed horsehead fiddle and the repertoire built around it.
• Folk & WorldTuvan Throat SingingSouthern Siberian overtone singing — simultaneous pitches from one throat, mimicking horses, wind and rivers of the Tuva steppe.
• Folk & WorldKhoomeiCentral Asian throat singing in which a single voice produces a drone and a melodic overtone simultaneously.
• ClassicalDuduk MusicArmenian double-reed wind music: a single instrument's voice held close to human speech, played in slow lament.

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