Kurdistan Music Archive
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kurdistan-music-archive-280-14189759
title:
Kurdistan Music Archive
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The Kurdistan Music Archive is a one-room exhibition-like archive that occupies one of the renovated traditional buildings at the Citadel of Erbil. The current director is Amjad Assad. Assad, almost working alone with no external help, has been digitizing, for several years, thousands of cassette tapes and 78 rpm phonographs of Kurdish music and songs spanning about 100 years. Originally, the archive was established in 1952 by his grandfather at the old bazaar of Hawler's downtown. The entire ar
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wiki
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Museums in Erbil
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Music_Archive
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2023-09-18T04:41:40Z
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