Humayun khan pashto singer biography paper

The conclusion of the day is that old traditions have been lost irrecoverably to the new age, trends and globalisation. But among Pashtuns, the vanishing tradition of old music and classic instruments is being held on to strongly.

In the olden times, popular folk singers were invited to wedding ceremonies where the guests would form a circle around the performers and throw money at them in appreciation – even being moved to jump up and let their bodies sway to the tune of the dance at times.

Those were the times when traditional Pashto musical instruments – Rabab and Mangai used to be the essential ornament of every typical Pashtun hujra.

When a hardworking Pashtun would come back home after a long day of trudging in his fields, the velvety voice of singers accompanied by the melodious strings of the Rabab would be his source of getting rid of all the tension in his tired muscles.

Not just limited to music, literature was a source of expressing emotions.

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