期刊名称：International Institute for Asian Studies Annual Report
出版年度：2002
期号：27
出版社：International Institute for Asian Studies
摘要：When I started my research onmusic in Afghanistan in 1973, Iheld a Social Science Research CouncilPost-Doctoral Research Fellowship inthe Department of Social Anthropologyat The Queen's University of Belfast, incollaboration with anthropologist andethnomusicologist John Blacking. Ourresearch project focused on recentchanges in the Herati dutar, a type oflong-necked lute. Between 1950 and1965 this was transformed from a smalltwo-stringed instrument of rural ama-teur music making to a much larger andmore versatile instrument with fourteenstrings played by professional urbanmusicians (Baily 1976). This morpho-logical transformation was of great inter-est in its own right as an example of dra-matic musical change in a seeminglyvery traditional society, and also prom-ised to provide new insights into rela-tionships that exist between human bod-ies and musical instruments
