Music and Islam talk
Music of the Islamic World
by Michael Frishkopf Dept of Music
- What could we possibly mean by "music of the Islamic world"? Four possibilities
- Outline of Islamicate music: music in Arab-Islamic civilization (after Ali Jihad Racy)
- Music and the Islam factor
- Discourse about music in Islam
- Islamicate music in theory (musiqi; ancient Greek influence) and practice (ghina'; Arab)
- Musical features of Islamicate music
- Sabah Fakhri (b. 1933), the greatest living exponent of the pre-mediated Islamicate style in Syria
- Islamic performance genres
- Islamic themes in mediated popular music
Video resources:
- Egyptian Sufi
- Umm Kulthum
- Qawwali
- Mevlevi
- al-Risala