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Author: David Harnish (Professor of Ethnomusicology, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Bowling Green State University) ,
Anne Rasmussen (Associate Professor of Music/Ethnomusicology, Associate Professor of Music/Ethnomusicology, College of William and Mary)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780195385427
ISBN 10: 019538542
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 09 June 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
<br> Absolutely essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex diversity of music in Indonesia today. --Prof. R. Anderson Sutton, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison<p><br> Divine Inspirations illustrates and confounds the perennially contested line between religion and culture in Islam. This pioneering volume reanimates Islamic studies in Indonesia and beyond by revealing the many performative paths to the divine. --Engseng Ho, author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean<p><br> The influence of Islam on the arts has long been overlooked in Western studies of contemporary Indonesia. This timely and original book changes that entirely. It will become the standard for the study of the arts in Indonesia and a model for similar studies in the broader Muslim world. --Robert Hefner, Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University<p><br> [A] groundbreaking volume...Extremely successful in its aims and will be very well received within the circles of Southeast Asian studies and ethnomusicology. --Indonesia<p><br>
<br> Absolutely essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex diversity of music in Indonesia today. --Prof. R. Anderson Sutton, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison<p><br> Divine Inspirations illustrates and confounds the perennially contested line between religion and culture in Islam. This pioneering volume reanimates Islamic studies in Indonesia and beyond by revealing the many performative paths to the divine. --Engseng Ho, author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean<p><br> The influence of Islam on the arts has long been overlooked in Western studies of contemporary Indonesia. This timely and original book changes that entirely. It will become the standard for the study of the arts in Indonesia and a model for similar studies in the broader Muslim world. --Robert Hefner, Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University<p><br>
Absolutely essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex diversity of music in Indonesia today. --Prof. R. Anderson Sutton, School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison Divine Inspirations illustrates and confounds the perennially contested line between religion and culture in Islam. This pioneering volume reanimates Islamic studies in Indonesia and beyond by revealing the many performative paths to the divine. --Engseng Ho, author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean The influence of Islam on the arts has long been overlooked in Western studies of contemporary Indonesia. This timely and original book changes that entirely. It will become the standard for the study of the arts in Indonesia and a model for similar studies in the broader Muslim world. --Robert Hefner, Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University [A] groundbreaking volume...Extremely successful in its aims and will be very well received within the circles of Southeast Asian studies and ethnomusicology. --Indonesia Essential reading for anyone studying Islam or music in Indonesia, for individuals seeking to understand the diversity of Islamic practices throughout the world, and for those interested in how arts interact with and actively shape the expression of Islam...[with] increasing academic agendas, budgets, and numbers of faculty lines devoted to the study of Islam, Divine Inspirations offers a timely ethnomusicological contribution to this project. --Ethnomusicology
Author Information
David Harnish is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (2006) and has recorded and/or performed Indonesian, jazz, Indian and Tejano musics with five different labels. Anne K. Rasmussen is Associate Professor at The College of William and Mary, where she also directs a Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is the author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (2010), co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (1997), a former Fulbright senior scholar, and Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Research Fellow
