TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: ard mhacha
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 04:42 AM

Scottish music almost suffered the same fate when the Protestant reformers banned all music, except for the Sunday hymns in the Kirk. Thanks to the Islands that didn`t conform the music survived, this continued until recent times.

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 04:31 AM

FWIW I think that freedom to make and enjoy music is an absolute human right, not just determined by culture.
Also the right of girls as well as boys to an education.

So what should our attitude be to those who seek to deny those rights by threat and use of murder and violence.

Again FWIW I believe we should support and defend those who are resisting.
Most posters on Mudcat argue that it is not our business.

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Ptarmigan
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 04:14 AM

If you wish to find out more about the diverse music of Pakistan, this link will keep you busy for a while!

Music of Pakistan

I'd be reluctant to mention any Pakistani musicians by name hear, but here's a brilliant musician from India, that those Bastards can't touch!

Ravi Shankar

Can you imagine our World without this amazing music?

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 03:03 AM

Please read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It helps to clarify much and parts of it are really funny

L in C

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: meself
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 11:47 AM

"Fundamentalist totalitarians of any stripe must never be allowed to hold power anywhere".

Trouble is, they usually WANT power more than anyone else does ...

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Maryrrf
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 09:54 AM

This is such a shame, especially since during the golden age of Islam music and the arts were supported and flourished. There have been some Christian sects that, if they'd gotten their way, would have seen to it that music was repressed too.

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: bankley
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 09:22 AM

can't have folks expressing themselves with the arts..., peace might break out

(at least for the length of the song)

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 08:52 AM

Agreed, its not the Muslim religion per se, rather a regime which interprets it thus as part've its sphere of control

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Gedi
Date: 10 Feb 09 - 08:36 AM

"Fundamentalist totalitarians of any stripe must never be allowed to hold power anywhere".

Amen to that

Ged

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: michaelr
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 08:40 PM

The same thing happened in Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. I happened across a TV documentary about the celebrations that broke out after the Taliban's defeat. Musicians were weeping openly with joy.

It's one thing to preach that Western influences are to be avoided, but quite another to suppress one's own traditions.

Fundamentalist totalitarians of any stripe must never be allowed to hold power anywhere.

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 07:44 PM

Bastards

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 07:27 PM

That is horrible, esp. in such a region which has such a rich history of culture,including music.

Subject: RE: TheDay the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 07:12 PM

scary what people will do in the name of their particular version of their religion.

on of my acquaintance used to sing a sing about a young Australian Muslin girl who loved singing, and her internal struggle when she reached puberty & started wearing the veil, and was not allowed by her family to sing in public.

sandra

Subject: The Day the Music Was Killed--Pakistan
From: Amos
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 10:54 AM

The music is dying in Pakistan, being strangled to death by right-wing extremists terrified that some joy might leak into the world.

Talk about inhuman oppressive insanity.


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