Music Of Afghanistan

Author : John Baily
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315466929
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Exile and the Music of Afghanistan written by John Baily and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Baily
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521250009
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music of Afghanistan written by John Baily and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louise M. Pascale
Publisher : National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426304545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Songs from Afghanistan written by Louise M. Pascale and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about how traditional children's songs of Afghanistan sound and what they mean.

Author : Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781568592954
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends written by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa Gilman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819576018
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Music, My War written by Lisa Gilman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music and easily acquire new music, for themselves and to share with their fellow troops as well as friends and loved ones far away. This ethnographic study examines U.S. troops' musical-listening habits during and after war, and the accompanying fear, domination, violence, isolation, pain, and loss that troops experienced. My Music, My War is a moving ethnographic account of what war was like for those most intimately involved. It shows how individuals survive in the messy webs of conflicting thoughts and emotions that are intricately part of the moment-to-moment and day-to-day phenomenon of war, and the pervasive memories in its aftermath. It gives fresh insight into musical listening as it relates to social dynamics, gender, community formation, memory, trauma, and politics.

Author : Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in the Mind written by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eddie Ayres
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760639400
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Danger Music written by Eddie Ayres and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience - from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Classic FM morning radio show. But all of this time Eddie was Emma Ayres. In 2014 Emma was spiralling into a deep depression, driven by anguish about her gender. She quit the radio, travelled, and decided on a surprising path to salvation - teaching music in a war zone. Emma applied for a position at Dr Sarmast's renowned Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, teaching cello to orphans and street kids. In Danger Music, Eddie takes us through the bombs and chaos of Kabul, into the lives of the Afghan children who are transported by Bach, Abba, Beethoven and their own exhilarating Afghan music. Alongside these epic experiences, Emma determines to take the final steps to secure her own peace; she becomes the man always there inside - Eddie.

Author : Mark Slobin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan written by Mark Slobin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer study in English of Afghan music particularly valuable to anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. Surveys the various facets of the music culture: instruments, styles, and music as a part of the ethnic mosaic of the region. Includes coverage of music in other areas of Central Asia.

Author : Hiromi L. Sakata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608073613
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music in the Mind written by Hiromi L. Sakata and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Whitlock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982159014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 ​The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.