AKU-ISMC Professor, Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, has co-published a new article entitled “Music Version” versus “Vocals-Only”: Islamic Pop Music, Aesthetics, and Ethics exploring the recent phenomena of pop-nashid. Looking at artists such as Maher Zain, Sami Yusuf and Harris J., the piece, co-written by musicologist Dr. Johannes Frandsen Skjelbo, analyses the historical development of different musical styles of pop-nashid, particularly the difference between ‘vocals-only’ and full instrumentation versions of the same songs.
Professor Otterbeck is set to publish a new book on the subject later this year. In The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music, he will expand on the history of nashid, Islamic discourse on popular music and the artists of the Islamic media company Awakening.
AKU-ISMC Professor, Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, has co-published a new article entitled “Music Version” versus “Vocals-Only”: Islamic Pop Music, Aesthetics, and Ethics exploring the recent phenomena of pop-nashid. Looking at artists such as Maher Zain, Sami Yusuf and Harris J., the piece, co-written by musicologist Dr. Johannes Frandsen Skjelbo, analyses the historical development of different musical styles of pop-nashid, particularly the difference between ‘vocals-only’ and full instrumentation versions of the same songs.
Professor Otterbeck is set to publish a new book on the subject later this year. In The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music, he will expand on the history of nashid, Islamic discourse on popular music and the artists of the Islamic media company Awakening.