Can a devotional song erase the lines that divide people? Across history, music has often done what politics and borders ...

HOUSTON, April 16, 2024— In the concert "Improvisation Across Cultures," Houston-based groups Riyaaz Qawwali and the Jalen Baker Ensemble came together at Asia Society Texas for a thrilling and unique ...

Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

NT BUZZ Rain has a way of making people pause. Perhaps that is why Goa’s monsoon feels like the perfect setting for an evening of qawwali, where every verse asks listeners to ...

Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...

Renowned Pakistani Qawwal Ijaz Sher Ali Khan has said that Qawwali is an integral part of the spiritual, cultural, and ...

LAHORE: Qawwali performance does not have to be religiously motivated or oriented towards the divine. It is an expression of love and can be addressed to the divine in any of its multiple conceptions ...

Are newer incarnations of qawwali straying away from traditions of this revered musical form and, even if they are, does it matter? I only have qawwali to blame for my first and solitary act of ...

With the beginning of the new millennium, the world began a rapid transition from cassettes to CDs. In the early 2000s, the internet wasn’t as widely spread in the country as it is now. Tap Here to ...