Informationen zu "Rocking Islam Music and the Making of New Muslim Identities"
Verlag: Waxmann Verlag GmbH
Verlagsnummer: 9783830943969
EAN: 9783830943969
ISBN: 978-3-8309-4396-9
Beschreibung
Freiburger Studien zur Kulturanthropologie Band 4
Sagir, Fatmar, ed
Despite the rich tradition of worldly and religious music in Muslim cultures
and throughout Islamic history, music and also womens voices have been often
condemned as devils work. Nevertheless, young Muslims use music as a medium
to express themselves whilst producing their own lines of thought developing
individual (religious) legitimations. In this volume we seek to offer
glimpses into the variety of regional phenomena of Music by young Muslims
from different countries. The contributions are a result from a Conference
held in fall 2018 in Germany which caught the attention of the national media
with a huge interest in music and identity formation of young Muslims
particularly living in the West.Music has the universal power to move
individuals, peoples and societies. Music is one of the most important
signifiers of cultural change. It is also most significant for youth
movements and youth cultures. While Islam has a historically and
traditionally rich culture of music, religious controversy on the topic of
music is still ongoing. However, young Muslims in todays globalised world
seek pop cultural tools such as music, and particularly hip hop music, as way
of exploring and expressing their manifold identities, whilst challenging
Islamophobia, stigma and racism on the one hand and traditional and religious
challenges on the other hand.
In this volume, following an international Conference with the same Title,
scholars and young academics from a variety of disciplines seek to explore
and highlight the phenomena surrounding the two, somewhat artificially
separated, realms of music and religion. The contributions not only look into
different genres of music, from Tunisian metal over German female hip hop to
Egyptian folk, but take the reader on a journey from continent to countries
to cities and rural areas and thus give space and time to a widely neglected
area of research: that of Muslim popular culture and young Muslims.
