Sufi Music of India and Pakistan
Subtitle: Sound, Context, and Meaning
Edition: Pap/Com edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780195979107
Subjects: Islam; Sacred & religious music; Music/Songbooks; Religion; Ethnomusicology; Islam - Rituals & Practice; Islam - Sufi; Religion / Sufism; Islam - Sufism; History and criticism; India; Pakistan; Qawwåalåi; Sufi music
First sentence: Qawwali music consists essentially of songs, musical settings of poems.