War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan write by John Baily. This book was released on 2016-09-01. War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1970s John Baily conducted extensive ethnomusicological research in Afghanistan, principally in the city of Herat but also in Kabul. Then, with Taraki’s coup in 1978, came conflict, war, and the dispersal of many musicians to locations far and wide. This new publication is the culmination of Baily’s further research on Afghan music over the 35 years that followed. This took him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the USA, Australia and parts of Europe - London, Hamburg and Dublin. Arranged chronologically, the narrative traces the sequence of political events - from 1978, through the Soviet invasion, to the coming of the Taliban and, finally, the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2001. He examines the effects of the ever-changing situation on the lives and works of Afghan musicians, following individual musicians in fascinating detail. At the heart of his analysis are privileged vignettes of ten musical personalities - some of friends, and some newly discovered. The result is a remarkable personal memoir by an eminent ethnomusicologist known for his deep commitment to Afghanistan, Afghan musicians and Afghan musical culture. John Baily is also an ethnographic filmmaker. Four of his films relating to his research are included on the downloadable resources that accompanies the text.
War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan
War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan write by John Baily. This book was released on 2017. War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Songs of Love and War
Songs of Love and War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Songs of Love and War write by Sayd Majrouh. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Songs of Love and War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors of oral literature in the Pashtun language create their work at a far remove from any books. Generally deprived of the support of schools and universities, their compositions are inseparable from song. Their poetry is never declaimed; rather, their rhyme and rhythm have melodic value. These popular improvisations do not exalt mystic love. In them there is no aspiration whatsoever to an unfathomable and incommunicable heaven, nor devotion to the lord, nor praise for an absolute master, nor any Adonis. To the contrary, they are songs of the earth. They celebrate nature, mountains, rivers, dawn and night’s magnetic space. They are songs of war and honor, shame and love, beauty and death. The repression of Afghan women has caused untold suffering, particularly through moral subjugation. Infant daughters and their mothers are received with scorn and shame, and lead lives of subordination and humiliation. Their rebellion against these tribal codes comes only through suicide and song. Translated from the Pashtun into French by the eminent Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, the greatest Afghan poet of the twentieth century, his text has been rendered into English in the expert hands of Marjolijn de Jager of the Translation Department at NYU.
Love & War in Afghanistan
Love & War in Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love & War in Afghanistan write by Alex Klaits. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Love & War in Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Love and War in Afghanistan presents true stories of fourteen ordinary men and women living in Northern Afghanistan. In a quarter-century of uninterrupted war, the people of Afghanistan have endured foreign invasions, ethnic strife, a fundamentalist Islamic totalitarian regime, and the unending crossfire of rival warlord factions. The country remains an object of fascination for journalists, academics, and filmmakers from around the world. In the midst of it all it is a startlingly powerful experience to discover, here, the voices of the Afghan people themselves. Young lovers who elope against the wishes of their kin; a mullah whose wit is his only defense against his armed captors; a defector from the Soviet army; a woman who is forced to stand up to gangsters in Tajikistan—their dramatic stories emerge in their own unforgettable words. Whether in the sudden awakening of mercy in a Taliban militiaman, the lingering contempt of a woman for her husband’s first wife, the pain and confusion of flight into exile, or the resourcefulness of a child who must provide for an entire family, the real focus of these narratives is the strength of solitary individuals faced daily with their own vulnerability. Men, women, orphans, widows, widowers, Tajiks, Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Turkmens, schoolteachers, mullahs, former Taliban, mujahideen, big brothers, little sisters, captive wives, lovers in flight: Love and War in Afghanistan tells their stories, putting human faces onto a country torn by war.
Music of Afghanistan
Music of Afghanistan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music of Afghanistan write by John Baily. This book was released on 1988. Music of Afghanistan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
