{"id":8955,"date":"2017-09-12T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:43:30","slug":"talking-taqwacore-punk-rock-and-resisting-islamophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2017\/09\/12\/talking-taqwacore-punk-rock-and-resisting-islamophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Taqwacore: Punk Rock and Resisting Islamophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Amy D. McDowell, <\/span>“This is for the Brown Kids!,” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2017<\/span><\/div>\n
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Basim Usmani – from the Kominas – performs at La Casa Maladita. Photo by Eye Steel Film, Flickr CC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Punk rock is all about breaking the rules, nonconformity, and standing up to the man. Now, punk bands are turning it up to eleven to combat Islamophobia. In order to gather researcher for her recent\u00a0<\/span>article<\/span><\/a> in <\/span>Sociology of Race and Ethnicity<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Amy D. McDowell<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 immersed herself into the \u201cTaqwacore\u201d scene — a genre of punk rock<\/a>\u00a0that derives its name from the Arabic word \u201cTaqwa.\u201d While inspired by the Muslim faith, this genre of punk is not strictly religious — Taqwacore captures the experience of the \u201cbrown kids,\u201d Muslims and non-Muslims alike who experience racism and prejudice in the post-9\/11 era. This music criticizes racism and challenges stereotypes with a punk-rock attitude.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div> Through a combination of interviews and many hours of participant observation at Taqwacore events, McDowell brings together testimony from musicians and fans, describes the scene, and analyzes materials from Taqwacore forums and websites. Many participants, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, describe processes of discrimination where anti-Muslim sentiments and stereotypes have affected them. Her research shows how Taqwacore is a multicultural musical form for a collective, panethnic \u201cbrown\u201d identity that spans multiple nationalities and backgrounds. Pushing back against the idea that Islam and punk music are incompatible, Taqwacore artists draw on the essence of punk rock as rebellious and nonconformist to create music to that criticizes racism and empowers marginalized youth.\u00a0 Taqwacore is a multicultural musical form for a collective, panethnic \u201cbrown\u201d identity that spans multiple nationalities and backgrounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy D. McDowell, “This is for the Brown Kids!,” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, 2017 Punk rock is all about breaking the rules, nonconformity, and standing up to the man. Now, punk bands are turning it up to eleven to combat Islamophobia. In order to gather researcher for her recent\u00a0article in Sociology of Race and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85,14],"tags":[14907,37332,37336,101567,101855,37333,101377],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-punk-music","tag-punk-rock","tag-race","tag-taqwacore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}