It is obvious
that in all Arabic countries, in Iran and Turkey the maqam has a high level
living culture, but the influence and the direct traces of the maqam culture
can be in found in the muisc of the following countries: South Africa, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Turk peoples, like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakistan,
as well as Iran, Armenia. In Europe in the music of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia,
Croatia, Macedonia, Albany and Hungary, the traces of the maqams can be found
in fragments. Maqam fragments can also be found in Malaysian and Indonesian
music. Today we can put Hungary also to the list of places where the maqam exists
even if in fragments, because the image of the maqam culture would not be whole
without it.