Transcript Slide 1

Piety, Pluralism and Paradox:
Muslim Musical Performance and
Education in Britain
Dr Carolyn Landau
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Music, King’s College London
[email protected]
AHRC/ESRC RELIGION and SOCIETY PROGRAMME
New Forms of Public Religion
5th to 7th September 2012
St John’s College, Cambridge
http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/londonfacts/londonlocalgo
vernment/londonmapandlinks/default.htm
“‘Islamic Revival’ (al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya) is a
term that refers not only to the activities of
state-oriented political groups but more
broadly to a religious ethos or sensibility that
has developed within contemporary Muslim
societies.”
Mahmood, S. (2005) Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist
subject, Princeton, N.J.; Oxford, Princeton University Press, p.3.
“...is manifested in a greater religious piety and
practice, a growing Islamic community
infrastructure and the configuration of a
distinctive Islamic public sphere enabled by
media and communication technologies.”
Jouili, J. (2009) 'Music 'for the sake of Allah': Islamic Pop in the UK'.
Unpublished conference paper. Migrating Music: Media, Politics and Style,
SOAS University of London, 10 – 11 July 2009.
Yusuf Islam, “I look, I see”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK36FTQX
27Q
Sami Yusuf, “Hasbi Rabbi”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYVyEoX
EGs
http://www.exhibitionroad.com/where
http://www.akdn.org/
http://www.akdn.org/aktc_music.asp
http://www.theismaili.org/go/ice
http://www.zamanafoundation.org/
• “a richly-woven tapestry, reflecting numerous
geographies, languages, cultures and
centuries...This pluralistic heritage is continually
celebrated even as its spirit is harnessed to the
contemporary world.”
(http://www.theismaili.org/go/ice).
Ismaili Community Ensemble
(audiovisual examples):
• http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1024/Aboutthe-Ismaili-Community-Ensemble-UK
• http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1106/MusicIsmaili-Community-Ensemble-UK