Folk music
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Hit New Zealand comedy duo Flight of the Conchords reunion gigs sell out in minutes
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement announce four shows at Wellington venue Meow Nui from next week – their firs…
- Afghanistan, Classical music, Culture, Folk music, Human rights, Islam, Law, Middle East and North Africa, Music, Religion, South and Central Asia, Taliban, World news
The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture
The sounds of Afghan history are being erased to prevent music’s ‘moral corruption’ of the Afghan people. We c…
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‘People would have lost their culture’: the Birmingham record label that saved south Asian music
From a transistor radio shop, Oriental Star Agencies championed legends such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and nurt…
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‘Totally full of spiritual energy’: Ustad Noor Bakhsh, the Pakistani musician discovered on the side of a road
Inspired by birdsong and playing the obscure zither-like benju, the 78-year-old is enjoying a surge in global …
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Pandit Jasraj: tributes paid to ‘incomparable genius’ of Indian classical music
Narendra Modi said the death of Jasraj, aged 90, leaves ‘a deep void in the Indian cultural sphere’. Here, his…