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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nooshin, Laudan.

Series:

SOAS musicology 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington : Ashgate, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Discourses of power in the region centre on some of the most contested social issues, most notably in relation to nationhood, gender and religion. Individual chapters examine the ways in which music serves as a forum for playing out issues of power, ideology, resistance and subversion. How does music become a space for promoting - or conversely, resisting or subverting - particular ideologies or positions of authority? How does it accrue symbolic power.

Contents:

Prelude : power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin

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

Abd 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59668-7

1-317-09228-7

1-282-34481-1

9786612344817

0-7546-9384-8

9781315596686

OCLC:

1055332093