Pashtun folk traditions have been embattled in recent years from…

Pashtun folk traditions have been embattled in recent years from two directions: from a modernizing, status-conscious culture that associates the rubab and other folk instruments with the lower classes, and from fundamentalist Islamic opposition to secular music, which has restricted performances and destroyed music shops.

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