The Voice in the Drum
Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20002857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard K Wolf (0009-0006-1083-190X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 408 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Voice in the Drum (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252038587.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W593206909 |
| Open Library | OL27558224M |
| ISBN | 9780252038587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 16 |
Based on extensive research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation in which the fictional protagonist Muharram Ali, a man obsessed with finding music he believes will dissolve religious and political barriers, interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of any one person's life. The result is a daring narrative that follows Muharram Ali on a journey that explores how the themes of South Asian Muslims and their neighbors coming together, moving apart, and relating to God and spiritual intermediaries resonate across ritual and expressive forms such as drumming and dancing
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Anthropology · History · Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies · Media, Communication, and Education · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History and criticism · Islamic music · Music · Music, asian · Music, history and criticism
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |