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Caravans and Chords: Tracing the Living Musical Legacy of the Silk Road

Caravans and Chords: Tracing the Living Musical Legacy of the Silk Road

Long before Spotify algorithms, the Silk Road was the world's greatest music discovery engine. From the dutar of Uzbekistan to the santur of Iran, ancient trade routes carried melodies as freely as merchants carried spices — and those sounds are still evolving today.