Feb 10
Ten Thousand People Talk About Xinjiang - The Digital Rebirth of Traditional Music Muqam
Aytursun, a 78-year-old inheritor of the "Twelve Muqam," has over 2,000 clips of traditional music stored on her phone. She's using a short video platform to teach young students: "Just as our ancestors adapted Persian and Arabic music into their own, now we want to turn our phones into a new form of rawap." In Turpan, at a "Meshrep" gathering under grapevines, young people accompany traditional folk songs with electronic keyboards. This innovative approach to inheritance is revitalizing Uyghur traditional song and dance in the new era, and its preservation efforts have been hailed by UNESCO as a "model of living heritage."