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The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

Otterbeck, Jonas

Hardcover

Series: Music and Performance in Muslim Contexts

Pop/RockArt & Popular CultureWorld Music

ISBN10: 1474490425
ISBN13: 9781474490429
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Aug 31 2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Awakening - an Islamic media company formed in London - has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades. As the company celebrates their first 20 years in the industry, Jonas Otterbeck examines their remarkable rise to success and their established reputation as one of the most important global enterprises producing pop music inspired by Islam. Otterbeck thoroughly describes the history and development of new Islamic popular music genres, in particular pop-nashid and Islamic pop, for the first time. He argues that Awakening - a company with the ambition to portray itself as Islamic - is best understood in relation to the ethical turn in Islamic thinking. In this way, he explores how the Islamic pop industry is, in effect, altering the very formulations of Islamic thought.

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