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Tuesday (3a)
Islam as Musical Catalyst (Islamicate Music) and Islam as Sonic Ritual (Islamic Language Performance)
Due today
Two page report on the following three works (2 readings and 1 film excerpt); submit on eClass 4a
- "Min al-Mashāyikh": A View of Egyptian Musical Tradition, by Virginia Danielson. Asian Music. Vol. 22, No. 1 (Autumn, 1990 - Winter, 1991), pp. 113-127. (Note: if you're not on campus you may have to use this link instead.
- Watch Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt to 18:40 (NB: the subtitles contain errors) or on Rutherford Reserve (ML 420 U46 U46 2006). What was the role of Islam (through Qur'an, religious song, Sufi festival) in selecting singers and shaping or training their voices?
- "Against ethnomusicology: Language performance and the social impact of ritual performance in Islam, Performing Islam, Volume 2, Number 1, December 2013 , pp. 11-43. Consider: why do I reject "music" (and "ethnomusicology")? What is "language performance" in Islam and why is it important? How can it be applied to ritual performance in Islam?
Also: review Shiloah reading from Week 2
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Projects and Research proposals
Research proposal due 5b: AIM and SIGNIFICANCE. What issue or topic do you wish to investigate, and why do you think it's important? One page only. Optionally: include a few secondary sources, links to online media, etc.
Upcoming Islamic holidays: Isrāʾ wa Miʿrāj (Feb 8)
Note that the Islamic calendar is based on a purely lunar system of 12 month years. The crescent moon (hilal) marks the start of a new month. Most Islamic holidays are set according to this calendar. Exceptions often mark syncretisms with pre-Islamic systems, e.g. the mawlid (saint day) of Ahmed al-Badawi in Egypt (always in October - a harvest festival), or spring festivals like Nawruz and Shamm al-Naseem.
Islamicate Music, and the relation to the Sounds of Islam
- Readings in Shiloah - questions? observations?
- Mostly what we know is the elite, court music... “art music"
- Formation through Islam as catalyst (connecting people through empire, language, religion; gathering wealth) and also restrictions (e.g. primacy of the voice)
- Commonalities
- Focus on language, combined with sound system: tonal and temporal
- music: tonality, temporality
- maqam, microtones
- iqaʿ (darb, wazn, usul)
- Shaped by Islamic discourse and practice (tilawa, Sufi hadra, musical training)
- Shaping local Islamic practices
- Variations:
- ideological differences, e.g. Sunni and Shia
- language, dialect, pronunciation
- culture, contexts, articulation with pre-Islamic culture
- social and political factors: immigration/borders/state policies
- Ramification of sound: localization adaptation
Islamic ritual: language performance, and its impact on Islamicate music
- Adhan
- Qur'an
- Duʿaʾ
- Khutba
Thursday (3b)
Due today
There are no new readings for today - I want you to catch up!
But please do the following and write a page about what you've discovered.
- Watch this BBC documentary film about the Hajj.
Watch the following videos:
- Sounds of Hajj:
- Sounds of Eid prayer:
- Takbir al-Eid: performed before Eid prayers on the days of Eid (Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha) also: [1][2].
- The text of the Takbir
- Search for indicators commending, proscribing, or regulating language performance on the occasion of Eid in Islam's core texts: Qur'an and Hadith. What can you find in Qur'an or Hadith concerning performance of prayers or songs at the time of the Eid? Use the course's Resources page to locate search engines, and note the hadiths or Qur'anic ayas you find. Can you find the hadiths that indicate performance of Talbiya or Takbir, as below? (note: you'll have to try many different search terms in English, due to uncertainty about transliterations)
Optional: You may also like to learn more about the Hajj through other sites, for example:
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Hajj and Eid al-Adha
- The Hajj as a central meeting point for Muslims everywhere, a point of exchange
- The Hajj, Eid, and their sounds.
LP and its principal Genres
Islamic LP (language performance): the mainstream sounds of Islam in social life and the social implications of sound.
The 5 "pillars" - arkan: at least four are associated with sound (excepting Zakat)
- Shahada
- Salat (namaz), including special prayers (Salat al-Eid, Tarawih)
- Ramadan, including Tarawih, and the Misahharati.
- Hajj, now in process in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
- Adhan: we have already considered adhan, the call to prayer.
- Salat: a compound ritual:
- Ibtihalat (sung supplications at dawn)
- Adhan
- Qur'an
- Adhkar al-Salat
- Ad`iyya (supplications within the prayer)
The theory and practice of LP
LP in Theory (ppt from Paris ICTM forum)
- Examples at the above link:
- Dawn in Egypt
- Friday prayer in Kazakhstan
- Eid prayer (Salat al-Eid)
- Rituals and sounds of the Hajj
Islamicate Music
- Readings: Shiloah, Danielson
- Mostly what we know is the elite, court music... “art music"
- Formation through Islam as catalyst (connecting people through empire, language, religion; gathering wealth), legal restrictions (e.g. primacy of the voice), emphases (the word), training (tilawa and Sufi contexts), contexts of cultivation (primarily Sufi).
- Commonalities across the Islamicate zone
- Focus on language, combined with sound system: tonal and temporal
- music: tonality, temporality
- maqam, microtones
- iqa (darb, wazn, usul)
- Shaped by Islamic discourse and practice (tilawa, Sufi hadra)
- Shaping local Islamic practices
- Variations:
- culture, contexts, articulation with pre-Islamic culture
- ideological differences, e.g. Sunni and Shia presents different soundscapes
- social and political factors: immigration/borders/state policies; Islamic ideology may trigger/represent political divides, restricting interactions
- language, dialect, pronunciation: vary from place to place
- Ramification of sound: localization adaptation, random or accommodating (Suwarian tradition of West Africa)
- Impact of Islam
- Discourses of Islam (e.g. attitudes towards music)
- Practices of Islam (e.g. tilawa, Qur'anic recitation)
- Islam as civilizational catalyst (e.g. formation of an empire that could absorb and fuse numerous traditions from a broad region)
- Examples:
- Egyptian Wasla
- Turkish Fasil
- Moroccan Nawba
- Persian Dastgah