On January 28, Saturday, 5-7pm, Silk Road House presents:
"Music in the Afghan North" By Mark Slobin Music in the Afghan North: a short survey of the fieldwork Mark Slobin did in a peaceful Afghanistan in 1967-72, where he traveled through the Central Asian zone of the country among Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmens, collecting folk music.
Mark Slobin is the Richard K. Winslow Professor of Music at Wesleyan University and the author or editor of many books on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, and ethnomusicology theory, the most recent being "Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction" (2010, Oxford University Press).
Silk Road House, 1944 University Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 (between Milvia & Martin Luther King; enter by side door in passageway under black Zabu Zabu awning); e-mail: silkroadhouse@yahoo.com; website: www.silkroadhouse.org; tel.: 510-981-0700. Silk Road House events are sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation.