Women, the recited Qur'an, and Islamic music in Indonesia / Anne K. Rasmussen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.Description: xx, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520255487 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520255488 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780520255494 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0520255496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 781.7/7008209598 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3197 .R37 2010
Contents:
Setting the scene -- Hearing Islam in the atmosphere -- Learning recitation : the institutionalization of the recited Qur'an -- Celebrating religion and nation : the festivalization of the Qur'an -- Performing piety through Islamic musical arts -- Rethinking women, music, and Islam.
Summary: Women the Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an and where an extraordianry diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's "New Order" and continuing into the era of "Reformation," the book considers the powerful role of music in the expression of reliogious nationalism.Summary: "Rasmuseen has written a classic study of the world of Islamic soundscapes, performances, and forms of musical piety in that most complex of societies, Indonesia. With great sensitivity; an alert musical response to players, reciters, and audiences; and a keen practitioner's ear and eye for subtlety as well as for the complexities of ǹoise', she changes common assumptions about Muslim music and, not least, genger in changing Islamic ritual cultures." Michael Gilsenan, author of Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society --Book Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.

Setting the scene -- Hearing Islam in the atmosphere -- Learning recitation : the institutionalization of the recited Qur'an -- Celebrating religion and nation : the festivalization of the Qur'an -- Performing piety through Islamic musical arts -- Rethinking women, music, and Islam.

Women the Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an and where an extraordianry diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes. Based on ethnographic research beginning at the end of Suharto's "New Order" and continuing into the era of "Reformation," the book considers the powerful role of music in the expression of reliogious nationalism.

"Rasmuseen has written a classic study of the world of Islamic soundscapes, performances, and forms of musical piety in that most complex of societies, Indonesia. With great sensitivity; an alert musical response to players, reciters, and audiences; and a keen practitioner's ear and eye for subtlety as well as for the complexities of ǹoise', she changes common assumptions about Muslim music and, not least, genger in changing Islamic ritual cultures." Michael Gilsenan, author of Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society --Book Jacket.