{"product_id":"sufi-music-of-india-and-pakistan-sound-context-and-meaning-in-qawwali-9780226700922","title":"Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali\u003c\/strong\u003e by Qureshi, Regula Burckhardt. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226700922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most distinctive and important genre of Muslim devotional music, Qawalli is closely identified with Sufism, the mystical form of Islam. At a Qawalli assembly, Sufi devotees gather under the guidance of a spiritual leader to experience states of mystical love and divine ecstasy through a ritual listening to music.\n\nIn this study, Qureshi creates a \"context-sensitive musical grammar\"—a way to study the setting, audience, and performance as elements of the music.\n\n\"Superbly documented. . . . Sufi Music is an engaging read for those interested in understanding not just qawwali, but also how music—perhaps all musics—is informed by, shaped by, and interacts with the ideological, socio-economic, and performance environment of its composers and performers.\"—Kenneth Chen, Canadian University Music Review\n\n\"A remarkably rigorous, creative, and insightful treatment of music as process, [this book] should serve as an exemplary approach to documenting performance in general. . . . A welcome addition to literature in ethnomusicology and Indian studies in general.\"—Peter Manuel, 1989 Yearbook for Traditional Music\n\n\"An accomplished musician as well as an anthropologist-ethnomusicologist, [Qureshi] has applied her formidable skills to analysis of the role of music in contemporary Sufi practice in India and Pakistan. . . . The whole is a most impressive work of scholarship.\"—F. and J. Lehmann, Pacific Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965916737589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226700925","price":224.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226700922_1c8fff9e-4cb4-4140-890b-5c63d56f9a0f.jpg?v=1781433394","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sufi-music-of-india-and-pakistan-sound-context-and-meaning-in-qawwali-9780226700922","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}