1st Edition
Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World Performance, Politics and Piety
Introduction Kamal Salhi 1. New Islamist Popular Culture in Turkey Martin Stokes 2. Social forces shaping the heterodoxy of Sufi performance in contemporary Egypt Michael Frishkopf 3. Singing Dissent: Sufi Chant as a Vehicle for Alternative Perspectives Earle Waught 4. Debating Piety and Performing Arts in the Public Sphere: The ‘caravan’ of veiled actresses in Egypt Karin van Nieuwkerk 5. Wah Wah! Meida Meida! The changing roles of dance in Afghan society John Baily 6. The Manifest and the Hidden: Agency and loss in Muslim performance traditions of south and west Asia Richard K. Wolf 7. ‘Muslim Punk’ Music Online: Piety and Protest in the Digital Age Dhiraj Murthy 8. Devotion or Pleasure? Music and Meaning in the Celluloid Performances of Qawwali in South Asia and the Diaspora Natalie Sarazin 9. Multicultural Harmony? Pakistani Muslims and music in Bradford Thomas E. Hodgson 10. Hip-hop Bismillah: Subcultural Worship of Allah in Western Europe Maruta Herding 11. Lil Maaz’s Mange du kebab: challenging clichés or serving up an immigrant stereotype for mass consumption online? Jonathan Ervine
Biography
Kamal Salhi is Reader in Francophone, Postcolonial and North African Studies at the University of Leeds and Deputy Director of the Leeds Centre for African Studies, UK. He is the founder and editor of two academic journals, Performing Islam and the International Journal of Francophone Studies. He is the founding director of the Leeds Centre for Francophone Studies (1997-2003) which has developed into the Centre of French and Francophone Cultural Studies. Dr Salhi has recently completed with Distinction an AHRC/ESRC funded research project, 'Performance, Politics and Piety: Music as Debate in the Muslim World'.
