If summer is distracting us somewhat, here’s a roundup of recent posts that may have slipped through the net.

On Kurdish culture (further to Dervishes of Kurdistan):

• Some Kurdish bards
• Zaza and Hawrami
• Aynur: Kurdish popular music.

In praise of a wonderful Turkish TV series:

• Ethos: one of a kind.

And I wrote a superficial introduction to

• Musicking in Ottoman Istanbul.

All these are part of an extensive series on West/Central Asia, not over-burdened by expertise…

Moving west from Songs of Asia Minor, I explored

• Rebetika in Greece, followed by
• Folk traditions of Greece: Domna Samiou.

Further west,

• The song of the Italians;

further east,

• New musics of Iran;

and still further east:

• Jazz in post-war Japan.

Also of note  are

• Dancing on the grave
• Two women vocalists (Judi Jackson, Cleo Sol)

• Desert Island Discs
• Kaliarda, Lubunca, Polari.

And the weathermen [sic] say there’s more to come…