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Films
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“2001”
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Music / Ethnomusicology
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Baily, John
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Film
Tablas and Drum Machines: Afghan Music in California
2001
58
‘
Directed by
John Baily
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Ethnomusicologist John Baily visits Fremont, California, the new home of the large community of exiled Afghans. He is joined by Kabuli master-musician, Ustad Asif Mahmoud, who plans to open a small private music school to teach traditional tabla drumming to young Afghans. However, Fremont is also a centre of musical innovation, with electronic keyboards and their built-in drum machines. In a series of in context performances we witness the co-existence of traditional and modern Afghan music and the dancing that goes with them both.
North America
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge transmission
Refugees / Displaced populations