Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis: The Unheard Pakistan

by Jürgen Wasim Frembgen

In Nocturnal Music in the Land of the Sufis Jurgen Wasim Frembgen takes the reader along on his fascinating mystical journeys into the musical worlds of Pakistan. In dense description he tells about his personal experiences and emotions while participating in ecstatic nights of music at Sufi
shrines, attending trance rituals and listening enraptured to sublime and refined classical music in private music rooms in Lahore. In his ethnographic narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199065063
• ISBN13: 9780199065066
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages