Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- List of Figures -- Films on the Accompanying DVD -- Acknowledgements -- Some Notes on Terminology and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Before the Communist Coup of 1978 -- 2 The Jihâd (Holy War) Era -- 3 The Mujahideen…
"The subject of this monograph is the fluctuating state of Afghanistan's music culture from the 1970s to 2014, when the country was about to be left to stand on its own two feet after 13 years of occupation by western military forces. ... The present work is a personalized accou…
"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 …
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 i…
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 i…
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 i…
"The subject of this monograph is the fluctuating state of Afghanistan's music culture from the 1970s to 2014, when the country was about to be left to stand on its own two feet after 13 years of occupation by western military forces. ... The present work is a personalized accou…