[NetBehaviour] Uyghur

[Alan Sondheim]

Uyghur

http://www.alansondheim.org/forUyghur.png

I'm interested in Uyghur culture; I have a Uyghur dutar on which
I improvise. The sound is uncannily beautiful. However what's
happening to the Uyghur culture and people is horrifying. I have
no clue what can be done from from 'here.' I recorded two viola
pieces, meditating on what is becoming a cultural genocide, if
not worse. Here are the viola pieces:

http://www.alansondheim.org/forUyghur.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/forUyghur2.mp3

I have no idea what to do. The internment camps resonate with
Stalinist Russia. And it is of course not just Uyghur; the
clampdown exists across numerous minority cultures whose living
worlds are being turned into cultural artifacts at best. And
what I do is play music. I play music.

Thanks to the Traditional Chinese Music page in Facebook; it's
an invaluable source of information.

Below are some useful urls (you might have to cut-and-paste);
check them out:

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http://centralasiaprogram.org/archives/event/symposium-on-chinas-mass-incarceration-of-uyghurs
https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/researching-xinjiang-police-state-rival-north-korea/article/2179627
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs#Chinese_internment_camps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/asia/china-xinjiang-rahile-dawut.html
https://www.facebook.com/elise.marie.anderson/posts/10100178816547799?hc_location=ufi
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Thanks, Alan

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