Re: How much research do you do?

on 2/12/03 11:22 pm, Suzanne A Blom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> For my current novel set 3000years from now(actually slightly more) set in
> Tashkent, I've got the best map of Tashkent( in Cyrillic, I'm afraid) I can
> find spread out on my desk, & I've gone thru a Turkish-English dictionary
> once for names(They're a nostalgic people--in some ways). I've looked up
> Uzbek on ebay.  I wish I could find out more about Uzbek musice.

I've danced to Uzbek music, in Samarkand. It's very...um...Turkish. And
jolly. And...um...twangy.

It's the usual jolly twangy sort of Islamic folk music.

Er...<cough>

Look, I'm not a musicologist, all right? And it was a long time ago.

Tim
Jolly dancing non-musicologist.