Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam / / ed. by Michael Frishkopf, Federico Spinetti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Akkach, Samer,; Anderson, Glaire D.,; Asani, Ali S.,; Daukeyeva, Saida,; Ergin, Nina,; Frishkopf, Michael,; Markoff, Irene,; Mumtaz, Kamil Khan,; O’Connell, John Morgan,; Robinson, Cynthia,; Ruggles, D. Fairchild,; Shannon, Jonathan H.,; Silverstein, Paul A.,; Spinetti, Federico,; Welch, Anthony,
• HerausgeberIn: Frishkopf, Michael,; Spinetti, Federico,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

Tracing the connections between music making and built space in both historical and contemporary times, Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam brings together domains of intellectual reflection that have rarely been in dialogue to promote a greater understanding of the centrality of sound production in constructed environments in Muslim religious and cultural expression. Representing the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, art history, architecture, history of architecture, religious studies, and Islamic studies, the volume’s contributors consider sonic performances ranging from poetry recitation to art, folk, popular, and ritual musics—as well as religious expressions that are not usually labeled as “music” from an Islamic perspective—in relation to monumental, vernacular, ephemeral, and landscape architectures; interior design; decoration and furniture; urban planning; and geography. Underscoring the intimate relationship between traditional Muslim sonic performances, such as the recitation of the Qur’an or devotional songs, and conventional Muslim architectural spaces, from mosques and Sufi shrines to historic aristocratic villas, gardens, and gymnasiums, the book reveals Islam as an ideal site for investigating the relationship between sound and architecture, which in turn proves to be an innovative and significant angle from which to explore Muslim cultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Foreword -- Introduction: Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam -- PART ONE Transregional -- Chapter One Listening to Islamic Gardens and Landsca -- PART TWO The Ottoman Empire and Turkey -- Chapter Two A Sound Status among the Ottoman Elite Architectural Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul Mosques and Their Recitation Programs -- Chapter Three A Concert Platform A Space for a Style in Turkish Music -- Chapter Four Articulating Otherness in the Construction of Alevi-Bektaşi Rituals and Ritual Space in a Transnational Perspective -- PART THREE The Arab World -- Chapter Five Venerating Cairo’s Saints through Monument and Ritual Islamic Reform and the Rise of the Architext -- Chapter Six Nightingales and Sweet Basil The Cultural Geography of Aleppine Song -- Chapter Seven Aural Geometry Poetry, Music, and Architecture in the Arabic Tradition -- PART FOUR Andalusia and Europe -- Chapter Eight Tents of Silk and Trees of Light in the Lands of Najd The Aural and the Visual at a Mawlid Celebration in the Alhambra -- hap t e r N in e Aristocratic Residences and the Majlis in Umayyad Córdoba -- Chapter Ten Sounds of Love and Hate Sufi Rap, Ghetto Patrimony, and the Concrete Politics of the French Urban Periphery -- PART FIVE Central and South Asia -- Chapter Eleven Ideal Form and Meaning in Sufi Shrines of Pakistan A Return to the Spirit -- Chapter Twelve The Social and Sacred Microcosm of the Kiiz Üi Space and Sound in Rituals for the Dead among the Kazakhs of Mongolia -- PART SIX Iran -- Chapter ThirteenListening to Pictures in Iran -- Chapter Fourteen Of Mirrors and Frames Music, Sound, and Architecture at the Iranian Zūrkhāneh -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX