Director John Baily, Afghanistan Music Unit, Goldsmiths
Country/Production UK
Release 2001
Length 58 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL or NTSC / All region
Location California, Fremont, USA / America
Ethnic Group Afghans
Order No RAI-200.328
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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.
