Afghan Music Puns

Just got taken down today because it was a repost from this year but I cant seem to find the older video so if anyone has a link that would be great

Speech by Mr. Naim Majrouh, at the 1st Freemuse World conference in 1998

Ladies and Gentlemen!

In the last 20 years due to war, political and social instability, disorder and lawlessness many aspects of our culture have been devastated. Museums have been looted, libraries have been burned, important and valuable books and documents destroyed or sold in the neighbouring countries. The contents of Afghan National Archives have disappeared and the music has been banned. The musicians were forced to leave the country. As a whole the rich cultural heritage of Afghanistan is in danger of disappearance and destruction and talents are being wasted.

According to the theme of this conference "Music and Censorship", I would like to focus only on one aspect of our cultural devastation, which is the Afghan music. Here I will share with you some information and ideas about the glorious past and the present tragic situation of music in our country.

The history of music in Afghanistan is deeply rooted in the Arian civilisation of the city of Balkh in northern Afghanistan, centuries before Christ, that started from Regvida Religious Songs.

After the introduction of Islam to Afghanistan, schools of Sufism were established that mixed music with religion. Eight hundred years back Maulana Salaluddin Balkhi (Rumi) has established the Mulavia School of Sufism worshipping Allah with music and dance. He has repeatedly mentioned Rebab (one of the oldest music instruments) in his poems. Kwaja Mohenoddin Chushti of Chust of Herat in western Afghanistan has created the Chushtia school that worship Allah with music and songs which is later called Qawwali in India. The Sufi's schools of thought were introduced to northern India under the Mongol and Afghan Khilgi, Lodi and Suri dynasties.

Classical Indian music was elevated to a height by Amir Khusran Balkhi who is considered the inventor of modern Sitar and Tabla. He has invented Rags and Tals of which one is particular for Pashtu music. According to some sources of information the Afghan Rubab was converted into Sarod by a Pashtun settler, among whose descendant is modern India's most celebrated Sarod player, the great Amjad Ali Khan.

In the 19th century during the rule of Amir Sher Ali Khan classical music was introduced to the upper class of Afghan society. The Amir invited a group of Indian musicians to Kabul in order to promote classical Indian music and to train

I’m currently in a western country and will be caring for recent arrivals from Afghanistan for the next few weeks.

I’m a musician and I would love to play guitar and sing a song in their native Pashto! The problem is: I speak no Pashto :(

If you have any family-friendly songs you can link me to and (hopefully) give me a good phonetic sounding-out, that would be extremely cool of you. Bonus points if it’s something they would have heard before. Thank you in advance, and I’m sorry for the difficult ask.

Hi everyone,

I am making a playlist with music from around the world and Afghanistan is the 1st one on the list. I'd like to find some neat Afghan music to add. I don't care about the genre.

Thank you in advance.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 52%. (I'm a bot)

> Gunmen presenting themselves as Taliban attacked a wedding in eastern Afghanistan to stop music being played and killed at least three people, the government has said.

> Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Saturday that two of the three attackers had been arrested, and denied they were acting on behalf of the Islamist movement.

> "Last night, at the wedding of Haji Malang Jan in Shamspur Mar Ghundi village of Nangarhar, three people who introduced themselves as Taliban entered the proceedings and [asked] that the music stop playing," he said.

> "As a result of firing, at least three people have been killed and several others have been injured."Two suspects have been taken into custody by the Taliban in connection with the incident and one who escaped is still being pursued.

> A relative of the victims said the Taliban fighters had opened fire while music was being played.

> "The young men were playing music in a separate room and three Taliban fighters came and opened fire on them. The injuries of the two wounded are serious," the witness told reporters.

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