Sabir Badalkhan
Sabir Badalkhan, Ph.D. in folklore (“Minstrelsy Tradition in Balochistan,” Naples, 1994), teaches at the University of Naples. His research interests include oral tradition in Balochistan (both in Pakistan and Iran); itinerant musicians, singers, and storytellers in southwest Asia; and the presence of African musical culture in Pakistan. He has published widely on Balochi oral traditions, and among his articles are “The Changing Contents of Baloch Women’s Songs” and “An Introduction to the Performance of Verbal Art in Balochistan.”
Articles by Sabir Badalkhan
Balochi Oral Tradition
Volume 18, Issue 2 (October, 2003)“Lord of the Iron Bow”: The Return Pattern Motif in the Fifteenth-century Baloch Epic Hero Šey Murīd
Volume 19, Issue 2 (October, 2004)
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