The Hundred Thousand Fools of God
by Ted Levin
Buy on AmazonIn the ’90s, I discovered the work of an ethnomusicologist named Ted Levin. I think the first of his books that I read was The Hundred Thousand Fools of God . This was in the years after the Soviet Union breakup gave birth to more than a dozen countries that we knew as the ”stans.’ Ted’s book introduced me to the people who live there; I could hear them, understand their interpretation of nature and of the universe. A few years later, Ted became one of my partners in creating the Silkroad Ens...
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"In the ’90s, I discovered the work of an ethnomusicologist named Ted Levin. I think the first of his books that I read was The Hundred Thousand Fools of God . This was in the years after the Soviet Union breakup gave birth to more than a dozen countries that we knew as the ”stans.’ Ted’s book introduced me to the people who live there; I could hear them, understand their interpretation of nature and of the universe. A few years later, Ted became one of my partners in creating the Silkroad Ens..."
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