Exhibition Burka Band

Music Videos

Recorded on the streets of Kabul, the Goethe-Institut in Exile is showing three music videos by the Burka Band - probably the "bravest band in the world". Among them is the video for the catchy hit "Burka Blue", which can not only be read as an ironic response to Western superstar and girl group images, but also cheerfully and self-ironically paints the counter-image of a world that, then as now, is seen as primarily war-torn and inhuman. The videos created in 2002 testify to recuperative potentials that shake stereotypical assumptions or at least call them into question.
 
© Frank Fenstermacher The Burka Band was formed during a music workshop in October 2002 at the state music school "Institute of Learning Music" in Kabul (Afghanistan). It was organised by the Goethe-Institut there together with the Afghan Ministry of Culture. The band "a certain frank" (Kurt Dahlke and Frank Fenstermacher) was invited, together with the drummer Saskia von Klitzing, with whom both also play in the band "Fehlfarben".  
There were two concerts and a workshop on pop music instruments and modern recording techniques. In the course of this, the first Afghan women's pop band was formed: the "Burka Band", three women in typical national clothing, the full-body veiling burka.

Burka Band - Burka Blue

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