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Persian Folksong Texts from Afghan Badakhshan

1970; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00210867008701397

1475-4819

Mark Slobin,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

This study is based on fieldwork undertaken in Badakhshān province of Afghanistan in 1968 for the purpose of collecting musical data. A summary of the basic musical styles and instruments current in the area can be found in the,author's Instrumental Music in Northern Afghanistan . The focus of the present article is the type of Persian verse set to music by the folk singers of Badakhshān. Principally, this includes a description of the texts of the most common folksong form of the region, the felak , drawn from singers of the Faizābād (central), Darwāz (northern), Shughnān (northeastern), Wākhān (eastern) and Keshrn (western) regions of Badakhshān province.