“Includes bibliography”—(p. [289]-317).

Contents: List of figures—List of tables—List of music examples—Notes on contributors—Acknowledgements—Prelude : power and the play of music / Laudan Nooshin—1. ’The artist of the people in the battle’ : Umm Kulthūm’s concerts for Egypt in political context / Laura Lohman—2. Abd al-Halim’s microphone / Martin Stokes—3. Mediated Qur’anic recitation and the contestation of Islam in contemporary Egypt / Michael Frishkopf—4. Music, politics and nation building in post-Soviet Tajikistan / Federico Spinetti—5. Music and censorship in Afghanistan, 1973-2003 / John Baily—6. National traditions and illegal religious activities amongst the Uyghurs / Rachel Harris—7. Jews, women and the power to be heard : charting the early Tunisian ughniyya to the present day / Ruth F. Davis—8. Music and politics in North Africa / Tony Langlois—9. Singing against silence : celebrating women and music at the Fourth Jasmine Festival / Wendy S. DeBano—10. ’Tomorrow is ours’ : re-imagining nation, performing youth in the new Iranian pop music / Laudan Nooshin—11. The power of silent voices : women in the Syrian Jewish musical tradition / Kay Kaufman Shelemay—Bibliogarphy—Discography—Index.