Казахские народные инструменты в популярной музыке

Traditional Kazakh instruments are also becoming more popular as participants in popular music, and the line between pop music and folk music can be fuzzy. Complete the activity, in which you will read some ideas about the fusion of popular and folk music. The quotes below are adapted from the Sputnik article “До мурашек: как казахские народные инструменты меняют современную музыку“.

Упражнение 31. Цитаты.

Match the Russian quotes with their English equivalents. You do not need to understand every word to be successful in this activity.

 

If you’d like, you can sample some songs that are either pop songs that incorporate traditional Kazakh instruments, or pop folk groups. Some of the folk groups also engage in the ancient tradition of Turkic throat singing.

 

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