Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Islam and Popular Culture 1
4. Part I. Popular Culture: Aesthetics, Sound, and Theatrical Performance in the Muslim World
5. Chapter 1. Listening Acts, Secular and Sacred: Sound Knowledge among Sufi Muslims in Secular France 21
6. Chapter 2. Islamic Popular Music Aesthetics in Turkey 41
7. Chapter 3. Theater of Immediacy: Performance Activism and Art in the Arab Uprisings 58
8. Part II. Artistic Protest and the Arab Uprisings
9. Chapter 4. “Islam Is There to Make People Free”: Islamist Musical Narratives of Freedom and Democracy in the Moroccan Spring 79
10. Chapter 5. Visual Culture and the Amazigh Renaissance in North Africa and Its Diaspora 100
11. Chapter 6. Can Poetry Change the World? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011 122
12. Part III. Islam: Religious Discourses and Pious Ethics
13. Chapter 7. The Sunni Discourse on Music 149
14. Chapter 8. Shiʿa Discourses on Performing Arts: Maslaha and Cultural Politics in Lebanon 169
15. Chapter 9. Islam at the Art School: Religious Young Artists in Egypt 187
16. Chapter 10. Writing History through the Prism of Art: The Career of a Pious Cultural Producer in Egypt 204
17. Part IV. Cultural Politics and Body Politics
18. Chapter 11. Ambivalent Islam: Religion in Syrian Television Drama 221
19. Chapter 12. Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1997 Iranian Popular Music 242
20. Chapter 13. Sacred or Dissident: Islam, Embodiment, and Subjectivity on Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatrical Stage 258
21. Chapter 14. Public Pleasures: Negotiating Gender and Morality through Syrian Popular Dance 278
22. Part V. Global Flows of Popular Culture in the Muslim World
23. Chapter 15. Performing Islam around the Indian Ocean Basin: Musical Ritual and Recreation in Indonesia and the Sultanate of Oman 297
24. Chapter 16. Muslims, Music, and Religious Tolerance in Egypt and Ghana: A Comparative Perspective on Difference 323
25. Chapter 17. Music Festivals in Pakistan and England 347
26. Chapter 18. Fleas in the Sheepskin: Glocalization and Cosmopolitanism in Moroccan Hip-Hop 364
27. Notes on Contributors 383
28. Index 387