Sonic Encounters
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Sonic Encounters

The Islamic Call to Prayer

  1. 219 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sonic Encounters

The Islamic Call to Prayer

About this book

Sonic Encounters: The Islamic Call to Prayer recounts the author's experience gathering field recordings of the Islamic Call to Prayer. It touches on key questions and problems faced along the way, as well as discussing technologies and methods for recording, what it means to develop art from ethnographic research, and the ethics and considerations of working with Islamic communities around the globe. The book uses a sound studies framework to explore artistic research methods and practices in ethnography as they relate to religious recitation.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2021
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798881863906
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Islamic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Recordings
  10. List of Recordings
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Note
  13. Introduction
  14. Chapter 1: Recording Sound in Context: Soundmapping
  15. Chapter 2: Dahab, Egypt, 2003
  16. Chapter 3: Mosque Alarm Clock: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2011
  17. Chapter 4: Sounding the Adhan
  18. Chapter 5: Old Fish Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2010
  19. Chapter 6: Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017
  20. Chapter 7: A Method for Recording
  21. Chapter 8: Florence, Italy, 2017
  22. Chapter 9: Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019
  23. Chapter 10: Recording as Translation
  24. Chapter 11: Yangon, Myanmar, 2014
  25. Chapter 12: Bali, Indonesia, 2017
  26. Chapter 13: Sound as Memory
  27. Chapter 14: Al Dabb’iya, United Arab Emirates, 2014
  28. Chapter 15: Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
  29. Chapter 16: Making Scholarly Art
  30. Chapter 17: Ezhara Beach, India, 2015
  31. Chapter 18: Protestors for Us: Sarasota, Florida, United States, 2016
  32. Chapter 19: The Sonic Context
  33. Chapter 20: Bangalore, India, 2010
  34. Chapter 21: Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
  35. Chapter 22: Ethnography and the Sonic Frame
  36. Chapter 23: Singapore, 2014
  37. Chapter 24: Madha, Oman, 2016
  38. Conclusion
  39. Endnotes
  40. Bibliography
  41. Index
  42. About the Author

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