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The music of Afghanistan comprises many varieties of classical music, folk music, and modern popular music. Afghanistan has a rich musical heritage [1] and features a mix of Persian melodies, Indian compositional principles, and sounds from ethnic groups such as the Pashtuns, Tajiks and Hazaras.
The Music of Afghanistan: A Rough Guide. Despite continued fighting, there is new musical life in Afghanistan and new interest abroad. Simon Broughton and Veronica Doubleday report. Mahwash and Ensemble Kaboul (Pascal Lafay)
In a modern day encore of the Mughal artistic synthesis, six cosmopolitan-minded musicians from Central Asia, Afghanistan, Northern India, were brought together by the Aga Khan Music Initiative with the aim of merging their musical instruments and traditions to create new sounds.
Beginning in 1967, ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin worked in Afghanistan to document musical practice and traditional instruments. A professor of music and American studies at Wesleyan University, Slobin collected instruments that are now extraordinarily rare documents of mid-20th-century Afghani culture.
May 20, 2017 · Enjoy music from Afghanistan as Quraishi performs on the rubāb. The twenty “sympathetic strings” of Afghanistan’s national instrument give this traditional lute a hauntingly beautiful sound.
Aug 22, 2021 · 10 Afghan musicians you need to hear: from Ahmad Zahir and Mahwash to Kabul Dreams | The National. Kabul Dreams helped spawn Afghanistan's indie music scene. Courtesy of Kabul Dreams. Ahmad Zahir is called Afghanistan's Nightingale. Facebook. A singer and television host, Mozhdah Jamalzadah has been called 'The Oprah Winfrey of Afghanistan'. AFP.
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.
