Yale Journal of Music & Religion Volume 4 Number 1 Voice, Media, and Technologies of the Article 2 Sacred 2018 Paralinguistic Ramification of Language Performance in Islamic Ritual Michael Frishkopf University of Alberta Follow this and additional works at: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr Part of the Anthropology Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, and the Islamic Studies Commons Recommended Citation Frishkopf, Michael (2018) "Paralinguistic Ramification of Language Performance in Islamic Ritual," Yale Journal of Music & Religion: Vol. 4: No. 1, Article 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1099 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. It has been accepted for inclusion in Yale Journal of Music & Religion by an authorized editor of EliScholar – A Digital Platform for Scholarly Publishing at Yale. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Paralinguistic Ramification of Language Performance in Islamic Ritual Michael Frishkopf Ritual practice is a powerful social force logical, sociocultural, and spiritual impact? In molding psychological, sociocultural, and spi- order to answer such questions, we require, first ritual realities, capable of adapting to dynamic of all, a holistic, integrative understanding of the environments to maintain its multiple functions. ritual phenomena under consideration. As ritual practices trace paths across social space For Islam,3 that means comprehending the and time, changes are induced—intentionally or nature of the vocal performance lying at the core not—in response to different environments: the of every ritual. While such performance appears personnel and social context of performance, to exhibit features of both “speech” and “song,” language, ideology, and other cultural factors.