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Saida Daukeyeva
Saida Daukeyeva is an assistant professor of music at Wesleyan University. Her research explores the social, spiritual and political dimensions of music and sound in Central Asia with a focus on Kazakhstan and the Kazakh diaspora. Her current book project based on fieldwork in Kazakhstan and Mongolia examines dombyra (two-stringed plucked lute) performance as a vehicle of history and social memory among Mongolian Kazakhs. Her earlier work investigated the music scholarship of Islamic polymath al-Farabi (c.870–950). Her articles on Kazakh music and medieval Arabic musical writings have appeared in the edited volumes Plucked Lutes of the Silk Road (Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, 2019), Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam (University of Texas Press, 2018) and Pieces of the Musical World (Routledge, 2015) and journals such as Ethnomusicology Forum, Asian Music and Review of Middle Eastern Studies. She is the author of Philosophy of Music by Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi (Soros Foundation, 2002, in Russian) and a co-editor of The Music of Central Asia (Indiana University Press, 2016).
Contact: Wesleyan University, Music Studios 306, 297 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT 06459-0265, USA.