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Sep 23, 2021 · Afghanistan has a strong musical tradition, influenced by Iranian and Indian classical music. It also has a thriving pop music scene, adding electronic instruments and dance beats to more...
Sep 25, 2021 · KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A month after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the music is going quiet. The last time the militant group ruled the country, in the late 1990s, it outright banned music. So far this time, the government set up by the Taliban hasn’t taken that step officially.
- A 24 Hour Turn Around
- The Orchestras of Afghanistan
- Looking Ahead
Since her first visit to Afghanistan in 2018, Cayenna has worked closely with musicians at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul tutoring young conductors and composers online. With an academic background in the social psychology of orchestral performance and a profound interest in the intersection of music and social justice, she or...
Following some additional funding from Research England, Cayenna was able to restructure her project. She designed a participatory research project and created a Research Stakeholders Group of musicians and musical scholars now exiled from Afghanistan. “It has been incredibly stimulating to work with the nine members of the Research Stakeholders Gr...
Following the success of the performance at Spitalfields Music Festival, Cayenna is working with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra to organise a second performance in the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. A screening of the performance of Elaha Soroor’s composition is also in the works with the University of Sheffield’s Concerts Team. The Research Stak...
Aug 12, 2023 · Afghan music students escaped the Taliban and are beginning their new lives abroad. Florence Schwartz, a violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, told us the burning of musical instruments...
Nov 17, 2021 · Music in Afghanistan has a unique potential for countering communal and ethnic rifts that the Taleban themselves denounce and claim to oppose. Their attempts at stifling a national identity in the making, one proceeding from mutual recognition and enjoyment of diverse Afghan cultural traditions, does not bode well for the country’s future.
Oct 13, 2021 · The international community, particularly the music and music research communities, must stand with the Afghan musicians as well as Muslim religious minorities to protect their cultural...
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Aug 17, 2023 · Despite the Taliban's intensifying crackdown on music, Afghan musicians are determined to protect the country's musical traditions. Singer Khalil Aria fled Afghanistan in October 2021,...
