Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam

By:

Rachel Harris

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Framing the Global

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China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is experiencing a crisis of securitization and mass incarceration. In Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam, author Rachel Harris examines the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile and connected, and their religious soundscapes flow out across transnational networks. Harris explores the spiritual and political geographies they inhabit, moving outward from the village to trace connections with Mecca, Istanbul, Bishkek, and Beijing. Sound, embodiment, and territoriality illuminate both the patterns of religious change among Uyghurs and the policies of cultural erasure used by the Chinese state to reassert its control over the land the Uyghurs occupy. By drawing on contemporary approaches to the circulation of popular music, Harris considers how various forms of Islam that arrive via travel and the internet come into dialogue with local embodied practices. Synthesized together, these practicies create new forms that facilitate powerful, affective experiences of faith.

Author Biography:

Rachel Harris is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Research for the School of Arts at SOAS, University of London. She is author of The Making of a Musical Canon in Chinese Central Asia and Singing the Village, and she has coedited several books, including Theory and Practice in the Music of the Islamic World and Ethnographies of Islam in China.

Release date NZ

November 3rd, 2020

Author

Rachel Harris

Series

Framing the Global

Pages

266

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

24 Illustrations, black and white; 6 Figures

ISBN-13

9780253050205

Product ID

32375776

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