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The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi'a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.
They won a BBC Award for World Music in 2003 and are the leading group playing popular Afghan instrumental music and songs outside Afghanistan. Weddings and Folk Music. In Afghan culture, music plays an important function in advertising and celebrating marriage, with ritual wedding songs bestowing blessings on the bride and groom.
Aug 22, 2021 · Ensemble Kaboul is a group comprised of Afghani exiles based in Europe. Getty. Farhad Darya commands a regional fan base with songs sung in Dari, Pashto, Hindi and Uzbek. AFP. Nasrat Parsa blended the best of Afghani and Indian folk music into his works Wikimedia. Kabul Dreams helped spawn Afghanistan's indie music scene.
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Sep 23, 2021 · Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition and a thriving pop music scene — now cowed into silence by the Taliban’s rise. An Afghan musician holds a tabla during a portrait in Kabul ...
On the morning of August 15 2021 the flourishing musicscape of Afghanistan fell silent. As the Taliban regime came back into force, musicians disappeared and fled. Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey is working with Afghan musicians now living in exile to create new platforms to share their work.
Sep 25, 2021 · An Afghan musician plays the harmonium during a portrait in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. About a month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is starting to go quiet. The last time that the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright banned music.
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Afghanistan’s most beloved singer, Ustād Farīda Mahwash, performs romantic Persian poetry, Kabuli songs, and Afghan folk music. She received the BBC World Music Award for the CD Radio Kaboul. A former star on Radio Afghanistan, Mahwash left the country in 1991 and now lives and performs in the United States. Ahsan Ahmad on tabla (drums) ...
