page_title: Pashto music
section_title: Loba
hierarchical_section_title: Pashto music / Genres / Loba
caption_attribution_description: FARAH, Afghanistan (May 08, 2010) – A band member plays the rubab during a musical performance at the Anab Gull Poetry Festival at the Farah Provincial Governors compound in Farah, Afghanistan, May 8, 2010. The festival was the first of its kind in two years and was an effort to remind the Afghan people of their rich cultural history. Male and female poets of all ages recited their poems to an audience consisting of coalition forces, provincial leadership and Afghans from all over the 10 districts of Farah province. Many poems focused on topics such as love, fruits, governance, the importance of education and the issues and beauty that lie within Afghanistan. (ISAF photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rylan K. Albright)
context_page_description: Pashto music is commonly performed in Afghanistan, mostly in the eastern parts and among the Pashtun diaspora, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northern Balochistan province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. The major center for Pashto music and arts is found in Peshawar, Pakistan.
context_section_description: Loba is very popular among the masses and are added within Tappas occasionally. This is a form of folk music in which a story is told. It requires 2 or more persons who reply to each other in a poetic form. The two sides are usually the lover and the beloved (the man and woman).
caption: The rubab is often used in Pashto music
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