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Title Ustad Rahim / Directed by John Baily
Published London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (56 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Summary Shot in the city of Heart, western Afghanistan 1994, in the period between the fall of the last leftist government and the coming of the Taliban, this is a portrait film of an outstanding musician, Ustad Rahim Khushnawaz. He was a master of the Afghan rubab, a double-chambered plucked lute with sympathetic strings. Using the observational cinema style the film shows Ustad Rahim in various contexts. These include a guided tour of the photos in his music room that recount his musical career, being at home with his wife and children, showing off his pigeons, erecting the tombstone for his father's grave, and teaching and playing the rubab. Of particular interest is the gormani ritual, a gathering of musicians where Rahim accepts a new student
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013)
Event Recorded in 1994
Notes This edition in an undetermined language with English subtitles
Subject Dagar, Rahim Fahimuddin, 1927-2011
Khushnawaz, Mohammad Rahim
Dagar, Rahim Fahimuddin, 1927-2011.
880-01 Musicians -- Afghanistan -- Biography
880-01/(Q Raba⁺ѕb music
Rabāb music.
Musicians.
Rabāb music.
Afghanistan.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Baily, John, 1943- director, producer.
Khushnawaz, Ustad Rahim, contributor
Other Titles Hezat's Rubal Maestro