A member of the Mexican National Dance Company performs William Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ at the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City on November 17, 2016.
Kashmiri Muslim girls play instruments and sing Sufi music under the tutelage of music teacher, Muhammad Yaqoob Sheikh, on the outskirts of Srinagar
Kashmiri Muslim girls play Sufi music under the tutelage of music teacher, Muhammad Yaqoob Sheikh, on the outskirts of Srinagar
On the Pakistan side of the border, Sufi music is thriving in the form known as Sufi Rock, in which the original lyrics are sung to electric guitar tracks and traditional tabla beats. The form has seen a recent revival with the advent of Coke Studio, a television show which features live music performances
Over the years, political tensions have eroded Indian Kashmir’s rich musical heritage. When an armed uprising against Indian rule broke out in 1989, public performances by artists suddenly stopped and cinema halls were closed and transformed into camps for government forces
Sheikh began teaching young Kashmiris in a bid to preserve the Sufi musical tradition of the picturesque Himalayan region, which has been divided between India and Pakistan since partition but is claimed by both countries
Sheikh faced opposition from both neighbours and soldiers and had to move the classes to a new location four times. Now he has trained nearly 50 Kashmiri women – although only a small minority continue to perform after marriage
Thousands of people in the Muslim-majority region follow Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam whose adherents seek spiritual communion through music and dance . The songs, which use the lyrics of old Kashmiri- and Persian-language devotional poetry, date back to the 15th century. But they have evolved as a uniquely male tradition, sung by men and handed down through the male line of the family
66 year-old Karimuddin who has worked here for 35 years helps put a drum through a manufacturing process.
83 year-old Yusuf Khan, one of the oldest employees of the company inspects a trumpet in the fitting room at the Nadir Ali & Co. factory in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
A close up detail of a beautifully finished French horn musical instrument with circular brass loops belonging to the Indian Army.
A master craftsman checks the brass tubes and bends them into shape to create music.
A worker takes a tea break at one of the assembly rooms at the factory. With changing times, the rise of EDM(electronic dance music), and a decreasing number of musicians who can actually play these instruments, the future of Nadir Ali and Co. is in question.
Brass trumpet valves being fit before final assembly of the instrument.
Nadir Ali, a musician from the British Army setup the music trade in Meerut, first making instruments of scrap and then manufacturing these instruments in India on a large scale around the second World War.
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