Rock & roll jihad
Subtitle: a muslim rock star's revolution for peace
By: by Salman Ahmad with Robert Schroeder.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781416597674
Subjects: Ahmad, Salman; Rock musicians -- Pakistan -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Pakistan-born Salman Ahmad is the first rock & roll star to destroy the wall dividing the West and the Muslim world. Salman's story began in New York, where he spent his teen years learning to play guitar, hanging out at rock clubs, making American friends, and dreaming of rock-star fame. When his family returned to Pakistan and Salman was forced into the strictures of a newly fundamentalist society, he created his own underground jihad: a traveling guitar club that met in private spaces, mixing Urdu love poems with Casio synthesizers and ragas with power chords. Later, he founded Junoon, which became South Asia's biggest rock band. In the center of a new generation of young Pakistanis whose religion gives them compassion for and not fear of the West, and who see modern music as a "rainbow bridge" that links their lives to the rest of the world, nothing could stop Salman's star from rising.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes discography and filmography.
Table of contents: title: The taliban and the guitar; title: Growing up; title: Wandering spirits; title: American desi; title: Finding my way; title: Rock & roll jihad; title: Freedom; title: Junoon; title: Banned in Pakistan; title: Fusion; title: The flight; title: Speak.