Muslim Music

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Muslim Music
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• Quranic Chanting
• Vocal and Percussion
• Muslimhiphop.com
• Muslim nursery rhymes
• Sufi Music- Nusrat Fateh Ali

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Quranic Chanting

• The most central form of music in the world.
• The words of the Quran are expressed in the
  rhythmic speaking or singing of words or sounds
• http//www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.
  aspx?itemid12667

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Qawwali what is it?

• A form of spiritual expression through music
• Began in the 19th century, a combination of many
  forms of classical Indian music

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Samples of Qawwali

• http//www.pakistanimusic.com/search.php?category
  11sortby1perpage60

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Qawwali Lyrics

• Selected Lyrics from Allah Hoo, a popular qawwali
  song.
• Artist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo----------
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• YOU are the provider of the fruits of the garden
• Every leaf says YOU are the Deity
• I depend on YOUR Grace and generosity
• YOU are my creator, my Master and my Deity
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• Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo----------
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• Everyone supplicates to you YOU when at prayer
• All the supplicants say YOU are the
  object             
• Once the curtains of remissness were drawn, it
  was revealed
• That YOU are present everywhere and in every
  human being
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• Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo----------

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Muslim Hip Hop

• Another expression of spirituality or identity
  through musical forms
• Like qawwali, it is expressed through certain
  cultural forms a combination of western musical
  influences including rock, disco, and R n B

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Muslimhiphop.com

• Site dedicated to all types of modern creative
  expression
• www.muslimhiphop.com
• http//muslimhiphop.com/index.php?pHip-Hop/Sister
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• http//muslimhiphop.com/index.php?pHip-Hop/Sister
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Cat Stevens

• Cat Stevens in the 60s
• Song The Wind
• I listen to the wind to the wind of my soul
  Where I'll end up well I think, only God really
  knows I've sat upon the setting sun But never,
  never never never I never wanted water once No,
  never, never, never I listen to my words but
  they fall far below I let my music take me
  where my heart wants to go I swam upon the
  devil's lake But never, never never never I'll
  never make the same mistake No, never, never,
  never

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Yusuf Islam

• Cat Stevens in the 90s
• www.catstevens.com
• Song God is the Light
• How great the wonders of the heavens And the
  timeless beauty of the night How great -- then
  how great the creator? And its star like
  priceless jewels far beyond the reach of kings
  Bow down for the Shepard guiding him home But
  how many eyes are closed to the wonder of this
  night? Like pearls, hidden, deep beneath a dark
  stream of desires But like dreams vanish with
  the call to prayer And the dawn extinguishes
  night - here too are signs