History is made at night
The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters
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Pakistan
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Dancing & Drumming at Lahore Sufi festival
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Lahore Journal: Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan (New York Times, 25 February 2010) 'Thousands of Muslim worshipers paid t...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Dancing in Lahore
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'Lahore is a city that has to fight for its cultural survival. The growing influence of the Taliban, although hundreds of kilometres to ...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Ayman Udas: a Singer Murdered in Pakistan
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'A rising musical star was allegedly shot dead by her own brothers in the conservative city of Peshawar in Pakistan last week after she ...
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Monday, March 09, 2009
Anti-music Islamists Destroy Shrine
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William Dalrymple on the destruction of a Sufi shrine in Pakistan ( full article in yesterday's Observer ): 'Rahman Baba, "the ...
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Pakistan: Eunuch Dancers Protest
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The Hijras of Pakistan, sometimes described as 'eunuchs', are generally gay transvesites/transsexuals, some of whom have had some ki...
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