Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia

by Anne Rassmussen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $46.87

  Takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. This title explores a public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and where an extraordinary diversity of Arab-influenced Islamic musical styles and genres, also performed by women, flourishes.