| Contents |
The chosen repertoire -- Preface to the 2005 edition -- Preface to the 1995 edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Terminology, transliteration and translation -- Music notation: legend -- Introduction: The Qawwali experience and ethnomusicological questions. What is Qawwali? ; Looking for tools ; An abstract model and a concrete procedure ; The ethnographic domain of Qawwali -- I. The performance idiom: Qawwali music. The Qawwali musical structure (Qawwali as North Indian music ; The distinctive features of Qawwali ; A Qawwali song model ; Variation in the choice of sequencing) -- II. The performance context: the Qawwali occasion. The background (The belief system behind Qawwali ; The textual message of Qawwali ; Sufi shrines and Qawwali ; The hereditary performeres of Qawwali) ; The structure of the Qawwali occasion (An ethnographic overview ; The Qawwali concept: an assembly for listening and a royal court of saints ; The proper setting for Qawwali ; The proper procedure for Qawwali ; The social and economic dimensions) -- III. The performance process: the Qawwali event. Introducing performance analysis (The task ; The performer's vantage point ; The context: music interaction) ; Observing the Qawwali performance (Performance 1: The Chilla Mahfil ; Performance 2: Ecstatic arousal in the Hujra Mahfil) ; Explaining the Qawwali performance (Assessing the setting ; Assessing the situation ; Building the performance) ; Analysing the Qawwali performance (Semantic referents ; The structural perspective: referents of status and identity ; The process perspective: referent of spiritual state and its intensification ; The performance perspective: referent of selective focus ; Summary: the total process) -- Conclusion (Returning to the basic questions about Qawwali ; Musical code and music-maker ; Qawwali and ethnomusicological analysis) -- Notes ; Qawwali musical vocabulary ; Glossary. |
| Abstract |
In this exceptional study of Qawwali, Muslim devotional music, the author asks the following: What accounts for the flexibility of the music's structure? How are the rules of performance established, and when can they change? What is the impact of the ritual? In answering these questions, she argues that Qawwali music is context-sensitive--that the music will vary with audience participation. The author's 'context-sensitive musical grammar' allows her to study setting, audience, and performance as elements of the music. The author's detailed analysis highlights the interdependency of society, music, and religion. This book is an innovative analysis of ethnomusicological theory and method. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING. SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER CD-9162. |
| General note | This edition includes a compact disc containing sixty minutes of Qtawwali music. |
| General note | Originally published Cambridge University Press, 1986. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256), list or oral sources (pages 257-262) and index. |
| ISBN | 0195979109 |
