Topics in World Music

Harvard FAS

Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia/Iran. This course focuses on the arts of sound practiced by Muslims in South and Central Asia (including Iran), and on procedures of recitation that grow from pre-Islamic roots among Arabic-speaking peoples. The purposes are two-fold: one is to understand from a musically informed perspective a set of interrlated musical practices that cut across these areas. The second is to understand how different ideologies, philosophies and…