Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia / edited by Laudan Nooshin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nooshin, Laudan.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

SOAS musicology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Political aspects--Middle East.

Music.

Music--Political aspects--Africa, North.

Music--Political aspects--Asia, Central.

Music, Influence of.

Music--Political aspects.

Central Asia.

North Africa.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

xv, 340 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]

Contents:

Prelude : power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin

'The artist of the people in the battle' : Umm Kulthūm's concerts for Egypt in political context / Laura Lohman

ʻAbd al-Halim's microphone / Martin Stokes

Mediated Qur'anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt / Michael Frishkopf

Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan / Federico Spinetti

Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003 / John Baily

National traditions and illegal religious activities amongst the Uyghurs / Rachel Harris

Jews, women and the power to be heard : charting the early Tunisian ughniyya to the present day / Ruth F. Davis

Music and politics in North Africa / Tony Langlois

Singing against silence : celebrating women and music at the Fourth Jasmine Festival / Wendy S. DeBano

'Tomorrow is ours' : re-imagining nation, performing youth in the new Iranian pop music / Laudan Nooshin

The power of silent voices : women in the Syrian Jewish musical tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-317), discography (pages [319]-320), and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780754634577

0754634574

9780754693840

0754693848

OCLC:

273819853

Publisher Number:

99936784415