{"id":25,"date":"2013-09-24T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T11:05:27","slug":"mazar-festivals-of-the-uyghurs-music-islam-and-the-chinese-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Mazar festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"middle\"><b><i>Mazar<\/i>\u00a0festivals of the\u00a0<\/b><b>Uyghurs<\/b><b>: Music,\u00a0<\/b><b>Islam<\/b><b>\u00a0and the Chinese State.\u00a0<\/b><b>British Journal of Ethnomusicology.\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/remf19?open=11#vol_11\"><b>Volume 11<\/b><\/a><b>,\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/remf19\/11\/1\"><b>Issue 1<\/b><\/a><b>, 2002<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/doSearch?action=runSearch&amp;type=advanced&amp;searchType=journal&amp;result=true&amp;prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A(Harris%2C+Rachel)\">Rachel Harris<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/doSearch?action=runSearch&amp;type=advanced&amp;searchType=journal&amp;result=true&amp;prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A(Dawut%2C+Rahil%C3%A4)\">Rahil\u00e4 Dawut<\/a><sup><br \/>\n<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Mazar<\/i>\u00a0in Central Asia are the tombs of Islamic saints, mythical or real, whose protection the Uyghurs (Turkic Muslims of China&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang Autonomous Region) invoke against drought, for a good harvest, for the birth of a son, and so on. Several hundred of these tombs are scattered around the deserts and oases of Xinjiang, mapping out a sacred landscape whose paths Uyghur peasants follow yearly on their pilgrimage journeys around the tombs. Some\u00a0<i>mazar<\/i>, like the tomb of the eleventh\u2010century Sultan Bughra Khan who fought a holy war to bring Islam to the region, are the sites of annual festivals which may be attended by thousands. The performance of music \u2014 the \u201cclassical\u201d\u00a0<i>Muqam<\/i>\u00a0tradition,\u00a0<i>dastan<\/i>\u00a0(story\u2010telling), drum\u2010and\u2010shawm dance music, Sufi\u00a0<i>zikr<\/i>\u00a0rituals \u2010 is an essential component of these festivals, used both for entertainment and with ritual meaning. The Uyghur\u00a0<i>mazar<\/i>\u00a0festivals are increasingly caught in the struggle between the Chinese State and rising Islamic fundamentalism in the region. This paper discusses the role of music in popular Islam in Central Asia, and Chinese Communist Party strategies of control and manipulation of popular religion, in terms of contesting the symbolic landscape and soundscape.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/09681220208567330\"><b>Download full text<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/09681220208567330\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/09681220208567330<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazar\u00a0festivals of the\u00a0Uyghurs: Music,\u00a0Islam\u00a0and the Chinese State.\u00a0British Journal of Ethnomusicology.\u00a0Volume 11,\u00a0Issue 1, 2002 Rachel Harris\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Rahil\u00e4 Dawut &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0 Mazar\u00a0in Central Asia are the tombs of Islamic saints, mythical or real, whose protection the Uyghurs (Turkic Muslims of China&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=25\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[15,8,7,13,5,16,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}