Sufi Music of India and Pakistan
Subtitle: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali (Cambridge Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 27, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521267670
Subjects: Folk music; Qawwåalåi; Ethnomusicology; Sacred Music; Music; Qawwali; Voice; Music / Ethnomusicology; India; History and criticism; Pakistan; Sufi music
First sentence: Qawwali music consists essentially of songs, musical settings of poems.