The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia

The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia
ISBN-10
0252096509
ISBN-13
9780252096501
Category
Music
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2014-10-30
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Richard K. Wolf

Description

Based on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation in which the fictional protagonist Muharram Ali, a man obsessed with finding music he believes will dissolve religious and political barriers, interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of any one person's life. The result is a daring narrative that follows Muharram Ali on a journey that explores how the themes of South Asian Muslims and their neighbors coming together, moving apart, and relating to God and spiritual intermediaries resonate across ritual and expressive forms such as drumming and dancing.

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