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    Haroon Bacha, Pashtun singer

    Haroon Bacha, Pashtun singer

    Presented by Crossroads Music at Crossroads Music

    February 21, 2010


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    Haroon Bacha was born in Swabi, in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, in 1972. Trained in the art of the tabla and the harmonium, Haroon has become best known for his voice. Since his debut cassette in the mid-1990s, Haroon’s renditions of traditional Pashto-language poetic genres, classical lyric, and neo-folk melodies have revolutionized contemporary Pashto music while not breaking with traditional rural roots; and have solidified his status as one of the most popular representatives of a new generation of Pashto musicians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Pashtun diaspora. Haroon’s high profile has been a mixed blessing in the contemporary era, however. In the increasingly desperate political struggles between social movements such as the Taliban and more elite traditionalist Pashtun interests, culture wars over Pashtun and Muslim identity have been at the forefront. Haroon himself has become a target of the Taliban’s puritanical cultural activism along with numerous other performers.


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        Crossroads Music

        801 South 48th Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19143

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        Tickets: $20 standard price $10 discount $30 supporters $5 under 12

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 21, 2010

        Times:
        7:30 pm

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