Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali - Brossura

Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt

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ISBN 10: 0226700925 ISBN 13: 9780226700922

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1995

Riassunto

The most distinctive and important genre of Muslim devotional music, Qawalli is closely identified with Sufism, the mystical form of Islam. At a Qawalli assembly, Sufi devotees gather under the guidance of a spiritual leader to experience states of mystical love and divine ecstasy through a ritual listening to music.

In this study, Qureshi creates a "context-sensitive musical grammar"--a way to study the setting, audience, and performance as elements of the music.

"Superbly documented. . . . Sufi Music is an engaging read for those interested in understanding not just qawwali, but also how music--perhaps all musics--is informed by, shaped by, and interacts with the ideological, socio-economic, and performance environment of its composers and performers."--Kenneth Chen, Canadian University Music Review

"A remarkably rigorous, creative, and insightful treatment of music as process, [this book] should serve as an exemplary approach to documenting performance in general. . . . A welcome addition to literature in ethnomusicology and Indian studies in general."--Peter Manuel, 1989 Yearbook for Traditional Music

"An accomplished musician as well as an anthropologist-ethnomusicologist, [Qureshi] has applied her formidable skills to analysis of the role of music in contemporary Sufi practice in India and Pakistan. . . . The whole is a most impressive work of scholarship."--F. and J. Lehmann, Pacific Studies

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Book by Qureshi Regula Burckhardt

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226700925
• ISBN 13: 9780226700922
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284