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Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression. Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies, and Islamic studies, the volume's contributors consider sonic performances ranging from poetry recitation to art, folk, popular, and ritual musics-as well as religious expressions that are not usually labeled as "music" from an Islamic perspective-in relation to monumental, vernacular, ephemeral, and landscape architectures; interior design; decoration and furniture; urban planning; and geography. Underscoring the intimate relationship between traditional Muslim sonic performances, such as the recitation of the Qur'an or devotional songs, and conventional Muslim architectural spaces, from mosques and Sufi shrines to historic aristocratic villas, gardens, and gymnasiums, the book reveals Islam as an ideal site for investigating the relationship between sound and architecture, which in turn proves to be an innovative and significant angle from which to explore Muslim cultures.
Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass
media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world.
Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationfrom
phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and
economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass
media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly
transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has become
a powerful social force. While parallel processes have unfolded
worldwide, their implications in the Arabic-speaking world have
thus far received little scholarly attention.
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