"There's no more artist here!". Negotiations and displacements of the musical knowledges' authority in soviet and contemporary Tajikistan

From the Soviet ambition of artistic "professionalization" to the contemporaneous musical theories and orchestrations, academism has been the key concept of state musical institutionalization in Tajikistan. Nevertheless, the frames of musical production in state institutions are not organised only according to state requirements. In fact, musicians negotiate their teachings and interpretations according to their own thoughts on music, while considering the socio-politic stakes at work in these contexts. Furthermore, non-state organisations, ritual celebrations and private concerts also act as institutions where to negotiate knowledges' authorities. Musicians transform their productions and positions as they participate, oppose or play with institutional processes in order to assert their own authority. These musical knowledge proceedings thus inform us about the socio-political issues and negotiations at work in the making of knowledge's institutions.