Performativity, Mysticism, Experience
Performativity, Mysticism, Experience
Abstract: This paper is a textual analysis of the media culture (music videos, performances, advertising, visual/ viral culture) around the greatest exponent of the Sufi musical form called “Qawalli,” through the life and work of the Pakistani maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997). Using insights from post-colonial theory, cultural studies, ethno-musicology and identity politics, it develops an argument about personhood and religious performance focused on issues of mysticism and experience within the specific liturgical space of the Qawalli.
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