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Performing arts
Rebab player (Linda Mazur)
The performing arts occupy a somewhat ambiguous position in the Afghan values system, regarded at best as a trivial pursuit and at worst as downright sinful. For this reason most professional performers (with the exception of the Ustaad or master musicians of the former royal court) were always deemed to be of low social standing.
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The Afghanistan Cultural Profile was created with financial support from the British Council Afghanistan
Date updated: 25 February 2008
 
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