Sounding Islam : Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World /

Sounding Islam : Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World /

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"Sounding Islam investigates the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media, the anthropology of semiotic mediation, and sound studies. Based on long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, a...

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Main Author: Eisenlohr, Patrick, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Voice.
Islamic poetry.
Islam.
Sound > Religious aspects > Islam.
RELIGION > Islam > History.
Anthropology.
Media studies.
Religion: general.
Islam > Île Maurice.
Poesie islamique.
Islam > Mauritius.
Mauritius.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sounding Islam
  • Devotional Islam and sound reproduction
  • Aspirations in transnational religious networks
  • The materiality of media and the vanishing medium
  • The work of transduction: Voice as atmosphere
  • Sound as affect? Encorporation and movement in vocal performance.

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