Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers

Contents

• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Methodological Framing and Background Information
• 1. THE RESPECTABLE COURTESAN
• Reading Malka Pukhraj's Postcolonial Performative Memoir, Song Sung True: Introducing the Respectable Courtesan
• 2. ROSHAN ARA BEGUM
• Performing Classical Music, Gender, and Muslim Nationalism in Pakistan
• 3. FEMINIST MEDIATIONS
• The Sacred and the Secular in Three Pakistani Female Singers' Oeuvre
• 4. RESHMA AND FOLK MUSIC
• Inventing a Tradition
• 5. BORDER TRANSGRESSORS
• From Popular War Songs to Disco-Pop, 1960-1980s
• 6. UNSETTLING THE NATION
• Coke Studio and the New Divas of Sufi-Pop in Contemporary Pakistan
• EPILOGUE
• In Media Res
• APPENDICES: INTERVIEWS
• 1. Suraiya Multanikar
• 2. Tahira Syed
• 3. Tina Sani
• 4. Hadiqa Kiani
• 5. Aliya Rasheed
• SINGING PAST SILENCE: A PERSONAL CODA
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR