Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan & Kyrghyzstan

Blackwell, Carole

(2001) Tradition and Society in Turkmenistan: gender, oral culture and song. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.

Slobin, Mark

(1976) Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Zeranska-Kominek, Slawomira

(1990) 'The Classification of Repertoire in Turkmen Traditional Music', Asian Music, 21/2, 90-109.

(1991) Turkmenistan: La musique des bakhshy. Lausanne: VDE-Gallo, AIMP 22. [sound recording]

(1992) 'The Turkmen Bakhshy: Shaman and/or Artist', in Baumann, M.P. (ed.), European Studies in Ethnomusicology: Historical Developments and Recent Trends. Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel.

(1994) Turkmen Epic Singing: Koroglu. Gentilly: Auvidis. [sound recording]

(2002) 'Music of Turkmenistan', The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 6, The Middle East, 965-977.