Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia / edited by Laudan Nooshin.
Contributors: Nooshin, Laudan.
Series: SOAS musicology series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780754634577
Subjects: Music -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Music -- Political aspects -- Africa, North; Music -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central; Music, Influence of
Table of contents: title: Power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin; title: "The artist of the people in the battle" : Umm Kulthūm's concerts for Egypt in political context / Laura Lohman; title: "Abd al-Halim's microphone" / Martin Stokes; title: Mediated Qur'anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt / Michael Frishkopf; title: Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan / Federico Spinetti; title: Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003 / John Baily; title: National traditions and illegal religious activities amongst the Uyghurs / Rachel Harris; title: Jews, women and the power to be heard: charting the early Tunisian ughniyya to the present day / Ruth Davis; title: Music and politics in North Africa / Tony Langlois; title: Singing against silence : celebrating women and music at the  Fourth Jasmine Festival / Wendy DeBano; title: "Tomorrow is ours" : re-imagining nation, performing youth in the new Iranian pop music / Laudan Nooshin; title: The power of silent voices : women in the Syrian Jewish musical tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.