2009: Music from Kazakh/Qazaqstan- Part VI and Part VII

Dear Readers,


I must apologize for my long silence, but now that the UCLA Library is closed for the Winter Holidays, I will have some more time to post interesting clips of Qazaq Pop Music for my readers. I like Qazaq Popular music for several reasons. First, Qazaqstani artists are experimenting with various forms of art that was considered "Western" under the regularized Soviet normatives. Second, it has been twenty years since the Communist states of Europe began to disappear from the map, and it is interesting to see how the Central Asian states began to pick up the life from the pieces of the Soviet State and move on. These two songs show us to diametrically opposite trends that often plague us as humans. First, to look into the future and then to look back in the past. The questions, I ask is as follows: Do we exist at the intersections of the past and the future? What is our present?


The first clip is by Zhadyra Kutpanova titled Suyem Seni= Жадыра Кутпанова - Суйем Сенi





The second clip depicts a woman in a traditional Qazaq dress. She longs for the "idealized" and "santizied" Qazaq past that is dreamlike. Although, not a reflection of reality, this clip, does give all of us hope and teaches us to dream.


The song is title Aulym Anim by Makpal Dixanbaeyva = Макпал Диханбаева - Ауылым Анiм. The title can be translated as the village or aul of my mother