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	Daryas World -
		Farhad Darya is a pioneer of committed and devoted music in Afghanistan: music committed to new ways of expression and devoted to human causes.
		During the reign of the red invaders, Darya was recognized as the founder of Afghan resistance music inside Afghanistan.
		Music certainly was not a career in Darya’s family.
	www.daryasworld.com /page.php?id=3 (3034 words)

	The censorship of music in Afghanistan
		During 14 years of communist rule, music in Afghanistan was heavily controlled by the Ministry for Information and Culture, while in the refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran all music was prohibited in order to maintain a continual state of mourning.
		All musical instruments are banned, and when discovered by agents of the Office for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice are destroyed, sometimes being burnt in public along with confiscated audio and video cassettes, TV sets and VCRs (all visual representation of animate being is also prohibited).
		Music was an integral part of many rites of passage, such as celebrations of birth, circumcision (male only), and most important of all, marriage.
	www.rawa.org /music.htm (0 words)

	Music in Afghanistan before the war
		The development of Afghan popular music took place with the assistance of master musicians (Ustads), descendants of Indian's court musicians, whose knowledge of Indian music theory and terminology and high standards of performance were important for organizing small ensembles and large orchestras at the radio station.
		Afghanistan had little in the way of formal music education and music such as was not part of the primary nor the secondary school curricula.
		Afghanistan is home to a variety of regional music characteristic of the ethnic groups inhabiting the different parts of the country, tough there are many similarities between them.
	www.mikalina.com /Texts/music-afghanistan.htm (0 words)

	Afghanistan's Web Site - Afghanistan Music
		Music is represented chiefly by traditional folk songs, ballads, and dances.
		Among the stringed instruments, the six-stringed rohab is thought to be the ancestor to the Western violin and cello.
		It is performed in a large circle with the dancers clapping their hands and quickening the movements of their feet to the beat of the music.
	www.afghanistans.com /Information/People/Music.htm (0 words)

	The Official Website of Farhad Darya
		Farhad Darya is a pioneer of committed and devoted music in Afghanistan: music committed to new ways of expression and devoted to human causes.
		While this album became a hit in Afghanistan, it received a smaller reception from Afghans living in exile in the West, because of their nostalgia for their home and their memories, and the thirst they had for their roots and for folklore music.
		Farhad Darya is the first Afghan musician to have come home from the West after the current socio-political developments in Afghanistan, and he has started to motivate and inspire the era of music in Afghanistan by founding Music Village, a large center for the rehabilitation and preservation of Afghan music in Kabul.
	www.farhaddarya.info /biography_english.htm (3042 words)

	Home - Tal Wadan Afghanistan
		The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 based partly on an intelligence failure analogous to our own in Iraq: They believed that their poorly behaved puppet in Kabul was poised to switch loyalties to the United States.
		Afghanistan will face a serious environmental crisis, which will have grave consequences for millions of its estimated 27 million population, if the government and international aid organisations continue ignoring the country’s degrading environment, experts warn.
		During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, they were tools in the hands of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
	www.afghanan.net (0 words)

	Music of Afghanistan - Definition, explanation
		The classical musical form of Afghanistan is called klasik, which includes both instrumental (ragas, naghmehs) and vocal forms (ghazals).
		The rubab is a common lute-like instrument in Afghanistan, and is the forerunner of the Indian sarod.
		In addition, traditional Pashtun music and culture (especially in the southeast of Afghanistan) has entered a period of "golden years", according a prominent poet and spokesman for Afghan Department of the Interior, Lutfullah Mashal [1].
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mu/music_of_afghanistan.php (0 words)

	UVa Music Library: Services (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Music from the shrines of Ajmer and Mundra.
		The Jasmine isle; music of the Javanese gamelan.
		Troubadours of Allah : Sufi music from the Indus Valley.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /MusicLib/guides/wrld-disc-asia.html (1797 words)

	DOA - Various Artists - Anthology of World Music: The Music of Afghanistan
		Growing up in and being constantly inundated by a culture where Western music predominates to the extent that one's experience with another culture's music is likely to come only in stereotypical mimicry or as background music for geographical documentaries, experiencing the music of a foreign culture can be somewhat jarring.
		In the end, hearing this music is cleansing for one's sonic palette, making the sounds that you've grown accustomed to take on a different resonance and the songs that once seemed so foreign take on a feeling of familiarity.
		To that extent, The Music of Afghanistan is an inexpensive sojourn that travels across boundaries of time, art and geography, enriching the listener's understanding of each.
	www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewID=3579 (0 words)

	Various Artists, Afghanistan Untouched (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I have to admit to a certain feeling of helplessness when faced with a collection like Afghanistan Untouched: it is, much more than entertainment, an ethnographic document, as much as a study of northwest Australian wangga or a collection of Icelandic rímur.
		This is born out by the substantial documentation included in the accompanying booklet, which includes an overview and sections discussing the role of musicians in the life of the various ethnic groups that make up the country, and commentaries on the various selections presented.
		The music of Afghanistan is, in spite of the regional differences, firmly a part of that broad sweep of the pan-Islamic cultural tradition that stretches from North Africa in the West to India in the East, and even reaches into southeast Asia and the Pacific.
	www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_va_afghanistanuntouched.html (257 words)

	Music in the Afghan North
		Around 1980, when I completed the first cycle of the Yiddish music work, I might well have gone back to Afghanistan, but a vicious and tragic cycle of destruction engulfed that country, starting in 1978, which broke only with the American intervention of 2001.
		A few open-reel tape recorders allowed minor circulation of other musics, mostly the songs of the Hindi films that were the mainstay of the few local cinemas.
		Baily also saliently summarized the crushing of Afghan music under the heel of the Taliban in the period 1996-2001 (Baily 2001), and at the end of 2002, he visited Kabul to help with the reconstruction of Afghan musical life under the Karzai government.
	afghanistan.wesleyan.edu /intro/index.html (1083 words)

	Helping birds sing again in Afghanistan
		The Afghanistan Music Unit (AMU) aims both to provide a resource for the rediscovery of musical heritage and to monitor the freedom of musical expression as it develops in the new Afghanistan.
		The idiosyncratic musical instruments of the region are also in danger of disappearing, and so part of the AMU’s aim will be to support Afghan craftsmen as they make new ones.
		In addition, if AMU is able to monitor the freedom of musical expression, then this may act as a barometer for the state of other human rights issues within Afghanistan.
	www.hero.ac.uk /uk/culture___sport/archives/2002/helping_birds_sing_again_1371.cfm (0 words)

	Afghanistan: Music in Kabul: Music making and censorship
		There was music on radio and television; cassette, CD and video shops played loud music on the streets; at night one could hear from afar the sounds of heavily amplified live music at outdoor wedding parties.
		At that time there was a complete ban on musical instruments and the sounds of instruments in those parts of Afghanistan under Taliban control.
		There is one area of music making that does not seem to have been as heavily censored by the Taliban as previously supposed.
	www.culturalprofiles.org.uk /Afghanistan/Directories/Afghanistan_Cultural_Profile/-930.html (632 words)

	Music in the Afghan North
		Afghanistan was ideal: music was still local and isolated.
		At Radio Afghanistan, they asked me to do a program explaining the Beatles, whom people had vaguely heard about but did not understand.
		Baily also saliently summarized the crushing of Afghan music under the heel of the Taliban in the period 1996-2001 (Baily 2001), and at the end of 2002, he visited Kabul to help with the reconstruction of Afghan musical life under the Karzai government.
	learningobjects.wesleyan.edu /afghanistan/intro/index.html (1083 words)

	South Asia Bibliographies: Afghanistan
		Afghanistan : an atlas of indigenous domestic architecture / by Albert Szabo and Thomas J. Barfield ; foreword by Eduard F. Sekler.
		Afghanistan : music from the crossroads of Asia.
		UCB Music MUSI L5115 v.2,5,8 v.1-3 (1969-1972) Music of Afghanistan and Iran.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /SSEAL/SouthAsia/afghan.html (0 words)

	The sound of music opens new world to Afghan girls -DAWN - International; August 31, 2006
		“Music has had a very bad history in Afghanistan, so many people are against it,” Amiri said, white platform shoes peeking out under the robes of her fl burqa.
		Amiri and Mazari had never seen Afghanistan until they returned two years ago to Mazar-i-Sharif, a dusty city on the hot northern plains known for its hashish, carpets and Hazrat Ali mosque.
		But she still thinks it is too soon to allow boys to join the music school.
	www.dawn.com /2006/08/31/int17.htm (736 words)

	Music For The Soul
		“Music has the power to move a person between different realities: from a broken body into a soaring spirit, from a broken heart into the connection of shared love, from death into the memory and movement of life.
		“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine.
		Music for the Soul is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3).
	www.musicforthesoul.org /quotes.html (647 words)

	The Afghan Music Project
		Since music was a form of non-religious expression, it was perceived as a vice, and the Taliban decreed that it should be eliminated.
		The rich sounds of Afghanistan and the tragic plight of its people inspired two UC Berkeley graduate students, Adam Gouttierre and Chris Becherer, to travel to Kabul, Afghanistan in the summer of 2005 and record folk musicians on location amidst kidnappings, protest riots, and civil unrest.
		The project was made possible by the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Clausen Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.afghanmusicproject.org /about.htm (1130 words)

	Grove Music
		The Taliban regime's hard line on artistic expression gained world-wide attention last March, when – in the face of international protest – the two colossal and ancient 'Bamiyan Buddhas' were destroyed as part of a larger programme of destruction of religious icons.
		Through his explanation of the changing fortunes of music in the country over the past 30 years, John Baily provides a broader historical context that is urgently needed in the present circumstances.
		He has been studying Afghan music, both in Afghanistan itself and in refugee communities outside the country, since 1973.
	www.grovemusic.com /grove-owned/music/feature_afghanistan/afghan01.htm (305 words)

	Music in the Afghan North
		But as of September 1967, virtually nothing useful had been written about the musics of Afghanistan in any western language (or locally), and only a handful of sparsely- or dubiously-annotated recordings had appeared.
		A few open-reel tape recorders allowed minor circulation of other musics, mostly the songs of the Hindi films that were the mainstay of the few local cinemas.
		Baily also saliently summarized the crushing of Afghan music under the heel of the Taliban in the period 1996-2001 (Baily 2001), and at the end of 2002, he visited Kabul to help with the reconstruction of Afghan musical life under the Karzai government.
	www.wesleyan.edu /its/acs/modules/slobin/html/intro/indexprint.html (0 words)

	CD Baby: QURAISHI: Pure & True Rubab
		A prime example of Afghanistan's art music, Quraishi possesses a masterful sense of rhythm and an acute ear, but it is his poetic heart that moves his listeners with his sensitive interpretations of the classical repertoire.
		One is reminded of the playfulness and invention of Celtic music, or of the soulfulness of American Blues, or the improvisations of modern Jazz.
		The traditions of this kind of music that Quraishi has put in so beautifully goes back to almost almost two millenia in the pre-Islamic period, when Afghanistan was a part of the Greater India, and was a great center for trade and the spread of Buddhist religion into central and east Asia.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/quraishi/from/tranceblackman (0 words)

	Goldsmiths College > Music Department > Afghanistan Music Unit (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the past music played a major part in the day-to-day lives of ordinary Afghan people, but this was taken away from them under the censorship of the Taliban.
		Director, John Baily, has studied the music of Afghanistan for nearly 30 years and produced a book, many articles, CDs and films on the subject.
		There will also be a collection of data about the censorship of music during the Taliban period, with personal testimony of arrests and punishments, and of how the ban on music was evaded.
	www.goldsmiths.ac.uk /departments/music/amu/index.php (237 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Western Musicians Concerning Indian Music
		There are two systems of classical music (North Indian and South Indian), there are semiclassical forms such as gazal, and rabindra sangit, there are the popular forms such as filmi sangit and bangara, as well as countless varieties of folk music.
		Indian music tied to notation has the same relationship to the actual performance as a stuffed animal does to a living one.
		Since this is not an impediment to the enjoyment of vocal music in India, it need not be an impediment to you.
	chandrakantha.com /faq/w_musician.html (1721 words)

	The Traditional Music of Herat: UNESCO Culture Sector
		Once a major cultural centre of the Timurid Empire (15th century), the fascinating medieval city of Herat, in western Afghanistan, has for many centuries enjoyed a reputation for excellence in the arts.
		The albums "Traditional Music of Herat" and "Female Musicians of Herat" offer a variety of vocal and instrumental music from the Herat region with traditional instruments such as dutâr, chahârtâr, sornâr and dohol, dâira, nai chapâni and robâb.
		These recordings were made just before the start of the civil war, which disrupted the life of this ancient centre of Islamic culture.
	portal.unesco.org /culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8301&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (0 words)

	Music Initiative in Central Asia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Music traditionally served not only as entertainment, but as a way to reinforce social and moral values, and musicians provided models of exemplary leadership.
		His students excel as performers of epic poetry and music, and are equally adept at electronically transcribing epic texts from handwritten notebooks kept by old masters, and using computers to de-noise old recordings.
		AKMICA activities in Afghanistan are centered around the spiritual and physical revival of Kucheh Kharabat, the musicians' quarter in Kabul's old city, and a centre of Kabul's distinctive art music tradition.
	www.akdn.org /Music/Musicin.htm (2519 words)

	Pashtun people (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pashtuns are also historically referred to as ethnic Afghans as the terms Pashtun and Afghan were synonymous until the advent of modern Afghanistan and the division of the Pashtuns by the Durand Line drawn by the British in the late 19th century.
		There are also various groups which claim Pashtun descent and are largely found among other groups in Afghanistan and South Asia and generally do not speak Pashto and are often considered either overlapping groups or are simply assigned to the ethno-linguistic group that corresponds to their geographic location and their mother tongue.
		Modern Pashto music is currently centered around the city of Peshawar due to the various wars in Afghanistan and tends to combine indigenous techniques and instruments with Iranian-inspired Dari music and Indian Filmi music prominent in Bollywood.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DPashtun (4844 words)

	TIME.com - Asia
		Its job is to eradicate sin, which, as defined by the totalitarian government of Afghanistan, includes simply listening to music.
		It insists that there is a hadith (a record of the Prophet's sayings) warning people not to listen to music lest molten lead be poured into their ears on Judgment Day.
		It is music that reaches people's hearts and souls." When music is muzzled, an outlet for self-expression is lost.
	www.time.com /time/musicgoesglobal/asia/mtaliban.html (733 words)

	village voice > music > Taliban Killed the Radio Stars by Richard Gehr
		A Bamiyan statue to Afghan music fans, Zahir benefited from Radio Afghanistan's ability to draw the country's tribes together beginning in the 1950s until the 1979 Soviet invasion (the Taliban destroyed the station's archives after it came to power).
		Afghan pop and musiqui (secular instrumental music), according to UCLA ethnomusicologist Hiromi Lorraine Sakata's Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musicians in Afghanistan, have become so proscribed that wary drivers took to jamming tapes of Taliban chants recounting the jihadic victories of Islamist martyrs into tape decks as they approached checkpoints.
		One strain of Afghan music derives from the North Indian classical tradition, whose ragas were imported to the country during the 1860s.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0147,gehr,30076,22.html (1409 words)

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