The Sound of Islam Southeast Asian Boy Bands

Author(s):
Barendregt, B.
Published
2008
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Since the early 1990s nasyid music has become widely popular among the Islamic youth of Indonesia and Malaysia. Imported from the Middle East, the verbal art attracts proponents particularly in universities, above all among student activists. However, the Middle East is not the sole role model; present-day nasyid music reveals the careful and often delicate mix of religion and pop that is currently so much debated throughout the Islamic world.

Southeast Asia
Date issued
2008
Language
English
Publisher
ISIM, Leiden
Is part of
ISIM Review (2008), Vol. 22, no. 1, p. 24-25
hdl
1887/17266