The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music/Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia

t first, Stokes and Rasmussen's recent monographs might seem an unlikely pairing: one focuses on sentimental Turkish pop music and the other on religious musical praxis in Indonesia. The authors take very different approaches both to the practice and the writing of research, and both books are complete in themselves, each providing a rounded study of an area of musical practice/production.