Western Afghanistan

As in other parts of Afghanistan , music has two main uses: entertainment and ritual. The home is an important place for women’s and men’s informal music making, always physically separate. Women and girls sing, play frame drums ( dāireh ), and dance at home [see Music and Gender]. Men hold parties for amateur music making, sitting apart in guest rooms reserved for male entertaining. Typically, they sing to the accompaniment of lutes ( dutār or rubāb ...