Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition

Authors

Bertie Kibreah, University of South FloridaFollow

Abstract

A book review is presented for Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition, authored by Lauren E. Osborne, by Bertie Kibreah.

Author Biography

Bertie Kibreah is an ethnomusicologist and South Asianist at the University of South Florida, with interests in re-sounding the greater region of Bengal—an enduring focal point in South Asia—to be more inclusive of sonic histories and contemporary music life in Bangladesh, the Bay of Bengal, and the “Banglashere.” His research is shaped by discourses of devotion, modernity, and migration—especially through the performative lens of pilgrimage, cultural industries, Sufi feminisms, and borderland musicking. His current book project explores and complicates trajectories of devotion through sonic geographies of the Bengal river delta, the musical placemaking of shrines, and the collectivized impressions of folk festivals within, between, and beyond Bengals.

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Recommended Citation

Kibreah, Bertie (2024) "Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition," Yale Journal of Music & Religion: Vol. 10: No. 2, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1312