‘Do not let our voices be silenced’: the desperate situation facing Afghan musicians

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‘Do not let our voices be silenced’: the desperate situation facing Afghan musicians
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🇦🇫Musicians in Afghanistan who once earned a living from their art are now in fear of their lives, and have gone into hiding. At least one folk singer has already been murdered in a remote province

An eerie silence has fallen on Afghanistan. This country, which nurtured some of the greatest musicians of Central Asia of the last half-century, is now officially a country without music. Though there is much confusion about what the new reign of the Taliban will bring, one thing at least is certain: public music-making is banned. This is in line with their very hard-line declaration that music is forbidden in Islam ⁠– which is wrong, because the Koran makes no reference to it.

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