Music, Culture and Identity in the Muslim World

Kamal Salhi is Reader in Francophone, Postcolonial and North African Studies at the University of Leeds and Deputy Director of the Leeds Centre for African Studies, UK. He is the founder and editor of two academic journals, Performing Islam and the International Journal of Francophone Studies. He is the founding director of the Leeds Centre for Francophone Studies (1997-2003) which has developed into the Centre of French and Francophone Cultural Studies. Dr Salhi has recently completed with Distinction an AHRC/ESRC funded research project, 'Performance, Politics and Piety: Music as Debate in the Muslim World'.

Introduction 1. New Islamist Popular Culture in Turkey 2. Social forces shaping the heterodoxy of Sufi performance in contemporary Egypt3. Singing Dissent: Sufi Chant as a Vehicle for Alternative Perspectives 4. Debating Piety and Performing Arts in the Public Sphere: The ‘caravan’ of veiled actresses in Egypt 5. Wah Wah! Meida Meida! The changing roles of dance in Afghan society 6. The Manifest and the Hidden: Agency and loss in Muslim performance traditions of south and west Asia 7. ‘Muslim Punk’ Music Online: Piety and Protest in the Digital Age Dhiraj Murthy 8. Devotion or Pleasure? Music and Meaning in the Celluloid Performances of Qawwali in South Asia and the Diaspora 9. Multicultural Harmony? Pakistani Muslims and music in Bradford10. Hip-hop Bismillah: Subcultural Worship of Allah in Western Europe 11. Lil Maaz’s Mange du kebab: challenging clichés or serving up an immigrant stereotype for mass consumption online?