I’ve been assigned to do a speech on Pakistan for my communication class. It was pick my choice to select anything related to Pakistan…so I picked music as I think Pakistani music is diverse - in terms of instruments, lyrics..
My thesis is based on Pakistani music, it’s culture and western influence in terms of mixing up Urdu-English lyrics. If you have ideas, thoughts please do share.
Thanks!
Re: Pakistani Music - Speech project
Good choice of topic! :k:
You’ll have to listen to some music i think…
Try searching the net for some good songs, or some history on ghazals or something. A good source would be www.wikipedia.org, it’s a free online encyclopedia and its got a huge collection of articles.
Good luck on your thesis! :k:
Re: Pakistani Music - Speech project
I listen to Pak music often. Recently I've been listening to Strings, Jal, Fuzon alike. I am more interested in Classical music.... the history of Sitar, Satoor, Tabla and Harmonium.
Re: Pakistani Music - Speech project
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Im sure there will be some information on the net somewhere on classical pakistani music. I wish I could help you, but I dont know anything about ghazals cause I never hear them.
Re: Pakistani Music - Speech project
I guess a good idea would be to divide it into phases. For the first 30 years after independence, Pakistani music was all filmi, with the occcasional pop flavored number like Co-co-co-rina here and there. In the 70s, things started rolling for the pop scene. We had Alamgir, Runa Laila etc comin in from Bangladesh and singing some really awesome pop tracks. They were pretty popular till the early/mid 80s, when BANG, we had Nazia-Zoheb, and the pop revolution was in full swing. Interestingly, the film music started to take a back seat and arguably declined in it's quality as well. And then we had that phenomenal music prog Music 89 which really turned the whole music scene upside down. Tons of new pop acts like Vital Signs, The Jupiters and some more were introduced. I guess everyone knows what happened in the 90s, the mid 90s pop acts like Fringe Benefits etc. and the Abrar ul Haq Billo phenomenon. Finally in 2001 the first Pak music channel IM was launched, and that brought it still more people to the scene.
That's a very, very brief history of Pak music. Film music still remains heavily traditional [they're opening up though, ask me for some awesome film albums!] while it's the pop scene which is still changing e very minute. It's hard to say what Pak pop would sound like in the next 5 years. So, exciting times indeed :D