Friday, 28 February 2014

Music and Dances

Music

The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayaki to modern forms fusing traditional and Western music, such as the synchronisation of Qawwali and Western music by the world-renowned Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In addition Pakistan is home to many famous folk singers such as the late Alam Lohar, who is also well known in Indian Punjab. The arrival of Afghan refugees in the western provinces has rekindled Pashto and Persian music and established Peshawar as a hub for Afghani musicians and a distribution center for Afghani music abroad.

Dances[edit]

Kathak -classical dance that developed in the royal courts of the Mughals.
Folk dances are still popular in Pakistan and vary according to region such as

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