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Awakening - an Islamic media company formed in London - has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades. As the company celebrates their first 20 years in the industry, Jonas Otterbeck examines their remarkable rise to success and their established reputation as one of the most important global enterprises producing pop music inspired by Islam. Otterbeck thoroughly describes the history and development of new Islamic popular music genres, in particular pop-nashid and Islamic pop, for the first time. He argues that Awakening - a company with the ambition to portray itself as Islamic - is best understood in relation to the ethical turn in Islamic thinking. In this way, he explores how the Islamic pop industry is, in effect, altering the very formulations of Islamic thought.Product Identifiers
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
ISBN-139781474490429
eBay Product ID (ePID)5049063231
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Awakening of Islamic Pop Music
AuthorJonas Otterbeck
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
Number of Pages224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJonas Otterbeck
Series TitleMusic and Performance in Muslim Contexts
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom