Folk, jazz specialist Jess Meider is a stand-out example of Western musicians thriving in China

Local talent agency is looking for African males to add to its stable of exotic talent

The School of Oriental & Africa Studies has released a great collection of Kazakh folk

Local designers of cool, Plastered T-Shirts, do a special edition for PK14

Mohsen Namjoo, Iran’s most controversial, musician, feels the mullahs' wrath 

Great Eurasianet series on the Kazakh, Kyrgyz minorities' music on China's troubled western frontier

Surprising chinks of light in state-run press

To cash in on singer’s death, local publishing house gets two music critics to churn out a book in time for the funeral

Iran's rockers feel the brunt of recent clamp-down - musicians want out of a society that was already difficult for alternative music, art

CD Launch at D-22 will bring out China's close-knit folk set