| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 340 pages) : illustrations, map, music |
| Series |
SOAS musicology series |
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SOAS musicology series.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317), discography (p. 319-320) , and index |
| Subject |
Music -- Political aspects -- Middle East
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Music -- Political aspects -- Africa, North
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Music -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central
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Music, Influence of.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Music, Influence of
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Music -- Political aspects
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North Africa
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Central Asia
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nooshin, Laudan
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| LC no. |
2008047658 |
| ISBN |
9780754634577 |
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0754634574 |
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9780754693840 |
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0754693848 |
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