Karl Marx

Regula Qureshi

Music and Marx represents the first time a distinctly diverse set of Marxist-directed approaches to the study of music can be found in a single volume. Widely varied in their topics, each chapter illuminates from its own vantage point how a Marxist treatment of culture informs - and is informed by - an assessment of musical production and reception. With ten all new essays by accomplished musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and music theorists, and an erudite introduction by editor Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, the book broaches such subjects as song structure and modernity, the commodification of a hip-hop aesthetic, the revolutionary music of Central America, public concerts in seventeenth- and eigthteenth-century London, Soviet-sponsored music, world music, and the state of music scholarship today.

Ideas, Practice, Politics

Music and Marx

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi

Qureshi's study carefully describes and documents the performance and rules of Qawwali music in the traditional Sufi assembly.

Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwali

Sufi Music of India and Pakistan

Earle H. Waugh

Baha Abu-Laban

Fourteen scholars examine what it is like to be a Muslim in North America today-the pressures inherent in an increasingly secular society; the need for people from radically different cultures to work together to maintain their religion; and the struggles of black Muslims to graft an indigenous North American branch onto mainline Islam.

Regula Qureshi

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