Rethinking Qawwali: perspectives of Sufism, music, and devotion in north India

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dc.contributor.advisorHyder, Syed Akbaren
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMinault, Gailen
dc.creatorHolland, Christopher Paulen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-26T19:09:00Zen
dc.date.available2010-10-26T19:09:00Zen
dc.date.available2010-10-26T19:09:06Zen
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-10-26T19:09:06Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractScholarship has tended to focus exclusively on connections of Qawwali, a north Indian devotional practice and musical genre, to religious practice. A focus on the religious degree of the occasion inadequately represents the participant’s active experience and has hindered the discussion of Qawwali in modern practice. Through the examples of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s music and an insightful BBC radio article on gender inequality this thesis explores the fluid musical exchanges of information with other styles of Qawwali performances, and the unchanging nature of an oral tradition that maintains sociopolitical hierarchies and gender relations in Sufi shrine culture. Perceptions of history within shrine culture blend together with social and theological developments, long-standing interactions with society outside of the shrine environment, and an exclusion of the female body in rituals. To better address Qawwali performances and their meanings, I foreground the perspectives of shrine social actors and how their thoughts reflect their community, its music, and gendered spaces.en
dc.description.departmentAsian Studies
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1042en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectSufismen
dc.subjectQawwalien
dc.subjectNorth Indiaen
dc.subjectMusicen
dc.subjectDevotionen
dc.subjectRitualen
dc.subjectTraditionen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectUrduen
dc.subjectMuslim communityen
dc.subjectSainten
dc.subjectShrineen
dc.subjectNizam ud-din Awliyaen
dc.titleRethinking Qawwali: perspectives of Sufism, music, and devotion in north Indiaen
dc.type.genrethesisen
thesis.degree.departmentAsian Studiesen
thesis.degree.disciplineAsian Cultures and Languagesen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Texas at Austinen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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