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Hazara culture (Dari: فرهنگ هزاره; Hazaragi: فرهنگ آزره) refers to the culture and tradition of the ethnic Hazara people, who live primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, the Balochistan province of Pakistan, and elsewhere around the world where the Hazara diaspora is settled as part of the wider Afghan diaspora.
In 1989, when he was about 20 years old, he turned to the Hazara folkloric and regional traditional music of dambura based on his artistic motives. [ better source needed ] References
Safdar Tawakoli (Persian: صفدر توکلی); (born 1942 in Yakawlang, Bamyan) is an ethnic Hazara musician from Afghanistan. He focuses on and plays mostly Hazara folkloric and regional traditional music based on the dambura. [1] [2] In 2020 the Afghan government awarded him the title of "Sultan Dambura" for his unique musical style. [3]
Hazara clothing plays an important role in supporting the cultural, traditional, and social identity of the Hazara ethnicity. Hazara garments are produced both manually and by machine. In Afghanistan, these types of clothing are sewn in various parts of the country, especially in the central provinces. [168] [169]
Many folk and regional tunings have existed, though below is the most accepted academic DG tuning for standard concert dombra prima of Kazakhstan. There are different classifications of Dombyra, for example Dombyra for singing songs or jirs has 8-9 frets, dombyra for kyus has more than 20 frets.
Her newest album the only non-Iranian album Music from Afghanistan covers traditional folklore songs from Afghanistan. On this album, she performs with the well-known singer Hamid Golestani, a Hazara from Afghanistan. The album was arranged by the masters Sobeir Bachtiar and Majid Derakhshani.
The Afghan concept of music is closely associated with instruments, and thus unaccompanied religious singing is not considered music. Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi'a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.
Zahra Elham (Persian: زهرا الهام; born c. 2002) is a Hazara singer best known for being the first female winner of the reality singing competition Afghan Star. Elham has continued her music career since receiving asylum in Australia following the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.