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Recapitulation Recapitulation
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Text and Context Text and Context
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The Pressure of Modernist Reform The Pressure of Modernist Reform
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The Presence of Women: Language The Presence of Women: Language
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The Presence of Women: The Voice The Presence of Women: The Voice
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The Female and Male Reciter in Context The Female and Male Reciter in Context
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The Presence of Women: The Body The Presence of Women: The Body
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Jakarta Feminists Jakarta Feminists
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The Juncture between Feminism and Nationalism The Juncture between Feminism and Nationalism
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Of Censorship and Tolerance Of Censorship and Tolerance
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6 Rethinking Women, Music, and Islam
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Published:August 2010
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Abstract
The voices of women are one of the distinctive strains in the Islamic soundscape, and as they perform, teach, study together, and practice alone, women contribute to the creation of messages of great beauty, power, and potency. They not only have access to the divine, but also help to create it both for themselves and for others. Women's voices, loud, strident, and authoritative, are heard by all and are often emulated, even by men. Of the many distinctive features of Indonesian Islam, the role of women was often identified to the author as paramount. This chapter recalls the power of women as performers in the broadest sense, from qur'anic recitation to political activism, and confirms their empowerment through performance. It seeks to convey the ways in which women, as exemplars of a “womanist” Islam, are agents of both the continuous localization of Islam in Southeast Asia and of the Islamization of the Indonesian Muslim ecumene.
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