Sonic Encounters

The Islamic Call to Prayer

Diana Chester

$68.99

Paperback

Forthcoming
Pre-Order now

QTY:

English

Rowman & Littlefield
11 April 2024

Islam; Media studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Islamic studies

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.

By: Diana Chester
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9781538164082
ISBN 10: 1538164086
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 11 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

List of Figures List of Recordings Acknowledgements Note Introduction 1. Recording Sound in Context: Sound Mapping 2. Dahab, Egypt, 2003 3. Mosque Alarm Clock: Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2011 4. Sounding the Adhan 5. Old Fishmarket, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2010 6. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017 7. A Method for Recording 8. Florence, Italy, 2017 9. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019 10. Recording as Translation 11. Yangon, Myanmar, 2014 12. Bali, Indonesia, 2017 13. Sound as Memory 14. Al Dabb’iya, United Arab Emirates, 2014 15. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017 16. Making Scholarly Art 17. Ezhara Beach, India, 2015 18. Protestors For Us – Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2016 19. The Sonic Context 20. Bangalore, India, 2010 21. Stockholm, Sweden, 2017 22. Ethnography and the Sonic Frame 23. Singapore, 2014 24. Madha, Oman, 2016 Conclusion Bibliography

Diana Chester is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews for Sonic Encounters: The Islamic Call to Prayer

Sonic Encounters offers new theoretical structures and methodological approaches to ethnomusicology, sound studies and practiced-based research, not to mention comparative religion. This comparative ethnographic work offers ways to hear and understand the sonic ties that bind a religion - in this case Islam - while revealing the many ways in which religion is localized and expressed as part of many different manifestations of contemporary identity. -- Sarah Weiss, University Professor for Ethnomusicology, Institute for Ethnomusicology, Kunst-Universität Graz