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Music, sound, and architecture in Islam
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- Creator
- edited by Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti ; foreword by Ali S. Asani
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : The University of Texas Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- xix, 440 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (come color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781477312452, 1477312455, 9781477312469, 1477312463, 9781477312476, 9781477312483
- OCLC
- on1001413962
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-421) and index.
- Introduction : music, sound, and architecture in Islam / Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti -- pt. 1. Transregional -- Listening to islamic gardens and landscapes / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- pt. 2. The Ottoman empire and Turkey -- A sound status among the Ottoman elite : architectural patrons of sixteenth-century Istanbul mosques and their recitation programs / Nina Ergin -- A concert platform : a space for a style in Turkish music / John Morgan O'Connell -- Articulating otherness in the construction of Alevi-Bektasi rituals and ritual space in a transnational perspective / Irene Markoff -- pt. 3. The Arab world -- Venerating Cairo's saints through monument and ritual : Islamic reform and the rise of the architext / Michael Frishkopf -- Nightingales and sweet basil : the cultural geography of aleppine song / Jonathan H. Shannon -- Aural geometry : poetry, music, and architecture in the Arabic tradition / Samer Akkach -- pt. 4. Andalusia and Europe -- Tents of silk and trees of light in the lands of Najd : the aural and the visual at a Mawlid celebration in the Alhambra / Cynthia Robinson -- Aristocratic residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba / Glaire D. Anderson -- Sounds of love and hate : Sufi rap, ghetto patrimony, and the concrete politics of the French urban periphery / Paul A. Silverstein -- pt. 5. Central and South Asia -- Ideal form and meaning in Sufi shrines of Pakistan : a return to the spirit / Kamil Khan Mumtaz -- The social and sacred microcosm of the Kiiz Üi : space and sound in rituals for the dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia / Saida Daukeyeva -- pt. 6. Iran -- Listening to pictures in Iran / Anthony Welch -- Of mirrors and frames : music, sound, and architecture at the Iranian Zurkhaneh / Federico Spinetti