A Central Asian Soviet-era pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean Brass Bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Sohonie argues the songs reveal the rhythms and dreams of the region's post-Soviet future. SOHONIE: There's a lot of different styles. And I think, again, it's just a testament that Central Asia ...

In North Korea, Russian tourists are invited to lay flowers at a monument to Soviet soldiers who died fighting to liberate ...

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...

(SOUNDBITE OF GULSHAN FEATURING MAKHFIRAT KHAMRAKULOVA SONG, "REZABORON") SOHONIE: There was not only a call from the very top to say, you know, you have to promote Soviet artists. It was Soviet ...

Many iconic tunes came about due to what the songwriters were experiencing at the time. Here’s the true meaning behind some ...

The film explores the complexities of life in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, highlighting the contrast between ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.