TKG is delighted to welcome social and cultural anthropologist and PhD in Afghan classical music Mr. J érôme LOUIS to RKK FM.
Mr. Louis recently joined the RKK team to share his knowledge of regional and Afghan classical music with RKK and to help develop the station’s music program’s overall.
After following a BA in Story of Art at the Toulouse-Le Mirail University and his graduate studies in Paris, Mr. Louis started his PhD field research in India under the topic of the violin and its influence on Indian classical music and theory.
From India, Mr. Louis travelled to Afghanistan in 2001 to extend his research to the study of the living Afghan classical music tradition and its contribution to the identity of North Indian classical music. After completion of his Master’s degree, Mr. Louis pursued his PhD specifically on the topic of Afghan music in the context of cultural, political and reconstruction perspectives. In 2003 he made a 26 mn documentary film on the musicians of Kharabat returning to Afghanistan from exile.
Since coming to RKK, Mr. Louis has helped expanded and organized RKK’s music archive and developed two exciting new music programs, Radio-e-Klassic which introduces RKK and RKH’s listeners to rare recordings of Afghan folkloric and classical music and Radio-e-Dunya which introduces listeners to musical genres rarely heard in Afghanistan, from Jazz to World Music.
