Week 1 - Sept 6: "The Persianate World": a viable concept? Introduction to the musics of Iran and Central Asia
Week 2 - Sept 13: Music, politics and society in 20th century Central Asia
Week 3 - Sept 20: Mountain music of Tajikistan (and Northern Afghanistan): folk and popular traditions, contexts and meanings
Week 4 - Sept 27: Tajik-Uzbek art music (Shashmaqom and related genres): repertoires, structures, history and contemporary practice
Week 5 - Oct 4: Mountain music of Tajikistan (and Northern Afghanistan)(continued): ritual and poetry among the Ismailis of Badakhshan
Week 6 - Oct 11: The voice, sung poetry and religion in Central and Inner Asia: aesthetics and ethics
Week 7 - Oct 18: Music politics and society in 20th century Iran
Week 8 - Oct 25 : Introduction to Persian art music: repertoire and performance practice, tradition, spirituality and ideology
Week 9 - Nov 1: Regional traditions of Iran: the music of Iranian Khorasan