Raushan Jumaniyazova

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Raushan Jumaniyazova is a musicologist and researcher whose work investigates traditional and experimental musical cultures of Central Asia. A 2019 Fulbright Scholar (UCSC), she also curates art projects and contributes to academic and cultural discourse across media platforms.

Myth 2.0: Multimedia Projects of Central Asia

July 2025
Raushan Jumaniyazova
Daulet Zhanshin / Photo by Dmitry Zimnitsky Myth lives on in Central Asia, but it has changed shape. Through multimedia projects, audiences become participants in rituals rather than mere parti…
A Kazakh “Gold Rush”: How Modern Nomads Sound

March 2022
Raushan Jumaniyazova
The zhetygen is a stringed instrument of the peopoles of Central Asia and Kazakhstan Young Kazakh musicians are diversifying Kazakh music and putting an end to the previous…