This summer the cellist Yo-Yo Ma highlights a year devoted to his Silk
Road Project at the spectacular National Folklife Festival in
Washington, D.C. Through exhibits, concerts, and lectures, the festival
celebrates the arts, crafts, and music of the lands along the ancient
trade route. Through telling interviews, lavish color photos, maps, and
intriguing sidebars, this book captures all the vitality of the project,
honoring cultural traditions that flourish along the Silk Road and the
ways they are affirmed or altered in America. From the stories of eight
artists from Silk Road lands who now live in America, young readers
sample recipes with a Persian cook, dodge the moves of a Korean martial
artist, and pluck the strings of a Greek oud, the ancestor of the lute
and guitar.