Aminur Rahman was a Pakistani musicologist who wrote extensively on the historical and comparative aspects of North Indian musical traditions. Rahman's Urdu and English writings were published across leading literary journals and art magazines. The essay featured in this episode was composed in the 1950s, and published in 1961, under the title "Pākistānī musīqī ke masā'il." Rahman lays out the terrain for what he saw as a developing Pakistani musical identity. He draws upon Pakistan’s ideological, cultural and intellectual challenges, and argues for ways in which it can draw upon UNESCO's global mission to identify collective structures of feeling, perception and experience in Pakistan. Rahman makes the crucial argument about how musical tendencies can be identified in the Islamic environment of Pakistani society, and the role that musical practitioners, artists and educationists can play in taking forward its thrust and spirit.

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