week 9 terms

Ion 1314HMU111 TermsLecture 9 – Religion, Spirituality, and Experience: Music in Islamic Cultures

Kesbi- Earn money from music

Shauqi- Amateur musician who don’t earn money from music

Burqa- Blue Burqa Band

o Burqa used as protest

Azan (Adhan) - Call to prayer by a muezzin

Muezzin-

Qur'an - Holy book of Islam

Qira'ah - “read” by a “reader”

Heterophony - Slightly divergent and alternative versions of a melody

Sufism - Islamic mysticism- Science behind the direct knowledge and experience of God

Dhikr - “Remembrance”, chanting God’s name(s)- Hyperventilation produces exhilarated and altered state of conciousness

Mevlevi- Followers of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

Sema- Ritual

Ghazal- Art-music style

Qawwali- Performed primarily at Sufi shrines- Soloists and their “parties”

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan- Popular qawwali singer (1949 – 1998)- Crossover with popular genres

Mast- Call-and-response- Rhythmic beats- Tempo builds to climax to transport listener to another plane