Excerpt: Ustads (masters) of Afghan music who had survived decades of war were forced into exile – in Pakistan, Europe or the US.
Ten years after the Taliban were ousted there are very few musicians left in Afghanistan who have a firm grasp of the country’s traditional music, but some Ustads have returned to change this.
Music can be studied once again at the Afghanistan National Institute for Music, which is state-funded, as well as at Kabul University and the Aga Khan Music Initiative.
Traditional music in Afghanistan has to compete against Bollywood and American pop but there is an attempt to maintain Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. via www.dw.de DW.DE.
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