Views From The West

What does Uyghur folk music and American Bluegrass have in common? At first glance, nothing at all. The instruments are different, the singing style is different, the melodies are different…So why ask this question at all? Because I recently recorded my music teacher playing a Uyghur folk song on the tambur, and other than the […]

We got our first snow of the season this week, and for a brief time the campus looked like a winter wonderland. This reminded me of a game that one of my teachers told me about, an old game that the Uyghurs play called the Snow Game.
After the first snow of the season, a […]