Women, the recited Qur'an, and Islamic music in Indonesia /

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Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rasmussen, Anne K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Qurʼan > Recitation.
Coran > Récitation.
Qurʼan
Islamic music > Indonesia > History and criticism.
Muslim women > Indonesia > Social conditions.
Women in Islam > Indonesia.
Musulmanes > Indonésie > Conditions sociales.
Femmes dans l'islam > Indonésie.
MUSIC > Religious > Muslim.
MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.
Islamic music
Muslim women > Social conditions
Women in Islam
Indonesia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • Hearing Islam in the atmosphere
  • Learning recitation : the institutionalization of the recited Qur'an
  • Celebrating religion and nation : the festivalization of the Qur'an
  • Performing piety through Islamic musical arts
  • Rethinking women, music, and Islam.

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