Focus: The Sounds of Islam

Performance, Ritual, and Text
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-415-99521-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Focus on World Music Series

Focus: The Sounds of Islam focuses on the influence of Islam on the sonic practices of Muslim-majority societies. Centrally, it describes the position and role of sound within the Islamic religion, and in relation to the musics of Muslim-majority societies more generally. It encompasses a broad survey of the Islamic soundscape, examining the role of sound in Islamic practices throughout the world, each considered in its socio-cultural and historical contexts. Included within this survey is background information about Islam; an exploration of Islamic concepts, attitudes, and perspectives about music and sound; a critique of "music in the world of Islam" as a coherent category; key musical concepts underlying the sounds of Islam; and an assessment of the diversity of sonic practices carrying Islamic significance, and of their bidirectional relations (both influencing, and influenced by) to broader musical culture. Descriptions of these practices is enriched with sound recordings, transcriptions, texts, maps, and photographs. The accompanying audio CD offers vivid musical examples and the companion website include resources for both students and instructors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frishkopf, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Leben & Praxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Sound and Music in Islamic discourse and practice 1. Introduction to Islam and its sounds 2. Islamic perspectives on sound, music, and the voice 3. Music in the "Muslim World" 4. The art of sound: traditional socio-sonic aesthetics and structures in the core Islamic areas (Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa) B. Part II: Sound in Islamic Practice 1. The sounds of central Islamic practices 2. The sounds of supplementary Islamic practices 3. Sounds of Islamic rituals 4. Sounds of minority spiritual movements 5. Sounds of Sufism C. Part III: Popular mediated genres: between spirituality and entertainment 1. Popular religious songs in the Arab world 2. Islamic pop in Malaysia 3. Popular Islamic songs in Turkey 4. Popular Islamic music of Bosnia (Illahiya) 5. Islamic rap, punk, and folk in the West D. Conclusion: The sounds of Islam: cultural significance, globalization, and experience 1. The influence of local musical traditions on the sounds of Islam 2. Impact of Islam on local musical traditions 3. Sound and Muslim immigrants 4. Virtual sound: Islam via recorded media, satellite, Internet 5. Experiencing the sounds of Islam: Muslims and non-Muslims

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Frishkopf is a graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999). Since 1999 he has taught ethnomusicology in the Department of music at the University of Alberta, where he currently holds the rank of Associate Professor, serving also as Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and Associate Director for Multimedia at the folkwaysAlive project (in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Washington DC).