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Razia Sultanova

Dr Razia Sultanova (born June 16, 1955), is an ethnomusicologist, a performer and social scientist at the University of Cambridge, who specialises in the study of Central Asian music in its social and cultural contexts.

Born in Valdivostok, and grown up Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan) during the Soviet Union, she graduated from the Uzbek State Conservatory before attaining her PhD from the Moscow State Conservatory, where she holds the position of Visiting Professor. During her postgraduate work at Moscow, Arts Study Institute, Razia developed the theory of music in the centuries old court culture, resulting in her monograph on rhythm of Shashmaqam (1988).

She is best known for her work in the fields of religious belief and the cultural heritage of Central Asia music and dance in its theoretical and methodical approaches with particular focus on the role of women, which has been supported through fellowships at the AHRC, EHRC, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Institut Français d'Etudes sur l'Asie Centrale, the British Council, and the British Academy.

She was the Vice President of the International Council for Traditional Music between 2015 and 2019, during which she organised and coordinated the 43d ICTM World Conference in Astana (Kazakhstan) with over 600 participants from 70 countries. Razia organised in 2006 at SOAS, University of London, the ICTM study-group on Music of the Turkic-Speaking World, which she chaired till 2019. She currently chairs the ICTM’s study group on Global History of Music.

Razia Sultanova is affiliated to University College Cork (Ireland) and the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and is also currently a Visiting Professor at both the Kazakh National University of Arts and the Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at Goldsmith's College and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London.

Selected Publications: The rhythm of the Shashmakom, Tashkent, Yana, 1998, (in Russian); Usul and Rhythm in Shashmakom, Tashkent, Yana, 1998 (in Russian); “From Shamanism to Sufism: Women Islam and Culture in Central Asia" (IB Tauris 2011, paperback in 2014); “Sacred Knowledge: Schools or Revelations" (ed, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany); “Turkic Soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop” (Eds. with Megan Rancier, Routledge 2019); the leading Ethnomusicological Journals :“Music and Identity in contemporary Central Asia”, Guest-Editor for “Ethnomusicology Forum”, Routlege, 14/2, 2005, London; “Entre Femmes”, Guest-Editor for “Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles”, Ateliers d’ethnomusicology, Vol.18, 2005, Geneva (in French); “Yearbook for Traditional Music”, Vol.48, 2016, (with Tim Rice).