 In the first half of the 20th century in Uzbekistan, Abdul Rauf Fitrad, member of the Jadid, was particularly interested in shashmaqam, the traditional music of the Court.In 1927, he wrote a book called "Ozbek klasik Muzikasi va uning Tarikhi" (Uzbek classical music and its history), in which he presented shashmaqam as a grand musical tradition of the Uzbek people.In the 1930s, during the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin, Uzbek shashmaqam was seen as an echo of the feudal ruling class and as a kind of music that promoted cultural progress toward adoption of European-style harmony.