Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia / edited by Laudan Nooshin. - Nooshin, Laudan (Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009)
Prelude : power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin -- 'The artist of the people in the battle' : Umm Kulthūm's concerts for Egypt in political context / Laura Lohman -- ʻAbd al-Halim's microphone / Martin Stokes -- Mediated Qur'anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt / Michael Frishkopf -- Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan / Federico Spinetti -- Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003 / John Baily -- National traditions and illegal religious activities amongst the Uyghurs / Rachel Harris -- Jews, women and the power to be heard : charting the early Tunisian ughniyya to the present day / Ruth F. Davis -- Music and politics in North Africa / Tony Langlois -- Singing against silence : celebrating women and music at the Fourth Jasmine Festival / Wendy S. DeBano -- 'Tomorrow is ours' : re-imagining nation, performing youth in the new Iranian pop music / Laudan Nooshin -- The power of silent voices : women in the Syrian Jewish musical tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-317), discography (p. [319]-320), and index.
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Keywords: Music -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Music -- Political aspects -- Africa, North; Music -- Political aspects -- Asia, Central; Music, Influence of; Electronic books