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News Afghanistan » Music: Sense of Place: For this Afghan pianist, music is an act of resistance
The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...
News Afghanistan » Music: Afghan Youth Orchestra in exile: Resistance against the Taliban
Music is banned at home. But after fleeing the Taliban into exile, the Afghan Youth Orchestra is performing in Europe about loss, hope, and the power of music. In August 2021, when the Taliban once ...
News Afghanistan » Music: After Fleeing The Taliban, Afghan Musicians In Pakistan Fear For Their Future As Deportation Looms
When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, they quickly banned music, declaring it un-Islamic. Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were ...
News Afghanistan » Music: Taliban’s war on music in Afghanistan: Hundreds of tombaks, guitars & national instrument rubab burnt
New Delhi: The Taliban police in the Parwan province set ablaze more than 500 musical instruments and sound systems in an open field in an effort to bar Afghan citizens from producing and listening to ...
News Afghanistan » Music: New England Conservatory student organizes Concert in Solidarity with Afghan Musicians
The amazing concerts put on by the New England Conservatory feature differing musical styles and traditions that span the globe, all thanks to the exceptional diversity of the NEC faculty and students ...
News Afghanistan » Music: From Canada to Kabul: Afghan singer seeks to restore music education
KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...
News Afghanistan » Music: Anthology of the World's Music: music of Afghanistan, vol. 3 : Music of the Tajiks [sound recording]
Program notes by Mark Slobin and musical examples (6 p. ; ill.) bound in container. Performer(s): Performed by Afghan musicians; sung in Persian. Production notes: Recorded in Balkh, Faizabad, Kabul, ...
News Afghanistan » Music: Taliban try to stop the music in Afghanistan again
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle’s music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. “Where ...
News Afghanistan » Music: After Taliban music ban, songbook teaches Afghan children to sing again
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Louise Pascale, an American music teacher, pulled a three-decade-old Afghan children's songbook from her bookcase, she realized she was likely holding a ...