Qawwalu Unbound. A study of Qawwali in Pakistand 1947 to present through the Qawwal Bachche

尽管Qawwali对南亚穆斯林具有至关重要的精神意义，并作为“苏菲”音乐流行，但对其世袭从业者的社会生活和表演历史的学术研究有限。我将通过其世袭的实践者“Qawwal Bachche”，对巴基斯坦自1947年分治以来Qawwali的转变进行民族志研究。他们中的大多数人在分治期间迁移到卡拉奇，今天继续在那里表演。通过突出在当代巴基斯坦仍在演奏的卡瓦里多样化的印度和伊斯兰音乐曲目，该项目将有助于对南亚音乐和伊斯兰教进行更丰富的讨论。

Despite Qawwali's crucial spiritual significance for South Asian Muslims and popularity as 'Sufi' music, there has been limited scholarly research on the social lives and performance-histories of its hereditary practitioners. I will conduct an ethnographic study on the transformation of Qawwali in Pakistan since its 1947 Partition, through its hereditary practitioners, the 'Qawwal Bachche.' Most of them migrated to Karachi during Partition and continue to perform there today. Through highlighting Qawwali's diverse Indic and Islamicate musical repertoire as it is still performed in contemporary Pakistan, this project will contribute towards a richer discourse on South Asian music and Islam.