Sonic Encounters: The Islamic Call to Prayer

by Diana Chester

Overview

Sonic Encounters: The Islamic Call to Prayer recounts the author’s experience gathering field recordings of the Islamic Call to Prayer. It touches on key questions and problems faced along the way, as well as discussing technologies and methods for recording, what it means to develop art from ethnographic research, and the ethics and considerations of working with Islamic communities around the globe. The book uses a sound studies framework to explore artistic research methods and practices in ethnography as they relate to religious recitation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538160725
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Diana Chester is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Recordings

Acknowledgements

Note

Introduction

1. Recording Sound in Context: Sound Mapping

2. Dahab, Egypt, 2003

3. Mosque Alarm Clock: Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2011

4. Sounding the Adhan

5. Old Fishmarket, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2010

6. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2017

7. A Method for Recording

8. Florence, Italy, 2017

9. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019

10. Recording as Translation

11. Yangon, Myanmar, 2014

12. Bali, Indonesia, 2017

13. Sound as Memory

14. Al Dabb’iya, United Arab Emirates, 2014

15. Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017

16. Making Scholarly Art

17. Ezhara Beach, India, 2015

18. Protestors For Us – Sarasota, Florida, USA, 2016

19. The Sonic Context

20. Bangalore, India, 2010

21. Stockholm, Sweden, 2017

22. Ethnography and the Sonic Frame

23. Singapore, 2014

24. Madha, Oman, 2016

Conclusion

Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Sonic Encounters offers new theoretical structures and methodological approaches to ethnomusicology, sound studies and practiced-based research, not to mention comparative religion. This comparative ethnographic work offers ways to hear and understand the sonic ties that bind a religion - in this case Islam - while revealing the many ways in which religion is localized and expressed as part of many different manifestations of contemporary identity.

Sarah Weiss