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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: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Voice.
Sound > Religious aspects > Islam.
Islamic poetry.
Islam > Mauritius.
Islam.
Mauritius.
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.