Piety, music and gender transformation: reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in Bangladesh
This article was published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies [ © 2011 Taylor & Francis ] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 The Article's website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650
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10361-66882016-11-24T06:14:50Z Piety, music and gender transformation: reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in Bangladesh Huq, Samia BRAC Institute of Governance and Development Gender roles Islamic discussion circles Jihad Music Piety Textual Islam Women This article was published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies [ © 2011 Taylor & Francis ] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 The Article's website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 The rise in an intense, textually-based piety, which has become increasingly prevalent in many circles in Bangladesh in the past decade, sees music as taking away from an ideal pious disposition, and therefore considers its removal from everyday life as a requisite to becoming a good Muslim. The removal of music is critically looked upon by secular Bengali Muslims, where singing, especially songs of the Nobel Laureate Tagore, is equated with cultural pride and Bangladeshi nationalism in the secular-liberal, especially the intellectual imaginary. The shunning of such music is thus tantamount to shunning 'Bengaliness' and a source of anxiety for the nationalist. In this article, through a deeper exploration of women's struggles of and sense of achievement in giving up music, I argue that for the women in pursuit of piety, what the act of giving up music speaks to is inner changes that enable them to critically reflect upon roles and relationships that have long been the defining features of a particular kind of middle class, Bengali, feminine self. The paper argues that shunning music is taken as a medium through which women critically rethink their positions at home, reconfigure old roles and expectations and come out of the process with a greater sense of control and ability to write their own identities as Muslim wives and women. Published 2016-11-02T10:16:01Z 2016-11-02T10:16:01Z 2011 Article Huq, S. (2011). Piety, music and gender transformation: Reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in bangladesh. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 12(2), 225-239. doi:10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 © 2011 Taylor & Francis. |
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This article was published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies [ © 2011 Taylor & Francis ] and the definite version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 The Article's website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14649373.2011.554650 |
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