Sufi rock
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Cultural origins | Early 1990s, Pakistan and Turkey |
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Sufi rock or Sufi folk rock is a subgenre of
Nadeem F. Paracha to define the Pakistani band Junoon, who pioneered the process of fusing conventional rock music with folk Sufi music and imagery.[1][2][3]
History
It is mostly based on the poetry of famous sufi poets such as Rumi, Hafez, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Bulleh Shah, Waris Shah and even Kabir and is mostly sung in languages such as Urdu, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Persian and Turkish.[citation needed]
See also
- Pakistani rock
- Culture of India
- Music of Pakistan
- Music of India
- Pakistani hip hop
- Culture of Pakistan
- Taqwacore
References
- ^ "The Nadeem F. Paracha's Work(s) Archive". Archived from the original on 2010-01-02. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- The Huffington Post
- ^ The Pluralism Project Archived 2015-10-19 at the Wayback Machine at Harvard University: Salman Ahmed Brings Sufi-Rock, Political Message to Harvard (Massachusetts)