The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music (Hardcover)

Awakening - an Islamic media company formed in London - has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades. As the company celebrates their first 20 years in the industry, Jonas Otterbeck examines their remarkable rise to success and their established reputation as one of the most important global enterprises producing pop music inspired by Islam. Otterbeck thoroughly describes the history and development of new Islamic popular music genres, in particular pop-nashid and Islamic pop, for the first time. He argues that Awakening - a company with the ambition to portray itself as Islamic - is best understood in relation to the ethical turn in Islamic thinking. In this way, he explores how the Islamic pop industry is, in effect, altering the very formulations of Islamic thought.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts
Release date:	August 2021
Authors:	Jonas Otterbeck
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-9042-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	1-4744-9042-5
Barcode:	9781474490429

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