Music and Afghan Migrants

1. What does this reading examine? Specifically, what issues does it look at? What does the comparison allow? 2. What are five characteristics of music before the war in 1978? 3. Why is it important to study the music of refugee populations? 4. How is music bound up with identity and memory? 5. What can music and dance be used to create? 6. What songs did Afghan musicians in Peshawar perform? What are some of the instruments employed? 7. How did Afghans fare in Fredmont? How did the older and younger generations of migrants compare and contrast with one another? 8. How you characterize Afghan music in Fredmont? How was it different from music in Peshawar? 9. How did Afghan music change in the USA? 10. What two contrasting roles for music in Peshawar and Fredmont reveal?    

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