RAI Research Seminar: John Baily

13:18 (cd track 4) Chun jan-e Kharabatam, Janan-e Kharabatam [1976 wedding in Kabul]
25:52 (video) Ruins of Musicians' Quarter in Kabul (1978)
32:15 (video) Musicians' offices (2006) in Kabul
44:05 (video) Master (ustad) Gulam Hussain (2023 Germany, rubab and tabla)
RAI Research Seminar
Spiritual emanations from Kabul's musicians quarter
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Jân-e kharâbâtam, jânân-e kharâbâtam
I am the soul of kharâbât, I am the beloved of kharâbât
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John Baily (Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
The kharâbât network of alleyways and courtyards in Kabul’s old city was until recently the Musicians Quarter, the home of an inter-related community of hereditary male performers of Sufi poetry and spiritual music. This seminar discusses the artistic achievements of the recent past and the survival of these remnants in the realities of current exile.