Download or read book Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia written by Laudan Nooshin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first direct look at the complex relationship between music and power across a range of musical genres and countries. Discourses of power in the region centre on some of the most contested social issues, most notably in relation to nationhood, gender and religion. Individual chapters examine the ways in which music serves as a forum for playing out issues of power, ideology, resistance and subversion.