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Ep. 008 — It Goes Both Ways

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Release Date: 04/27/2016

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“Thy will be done. Thy will be done. I don’t know. Please, I don’t know.” -Jessica Ripper

 

Jessica Ripper is a white American with blonde hair, blue eyes and a home in Northern California. Yet, to many in Pakistan, she’s an Islamic-gospel musician who plays the tabla.

In the 700-year-old sufi-singing tradition of Qawwali, she’s a female trailblazer shattering century-old glass ceilings from sufi shrine to sufi shrine. And everywhere else, she’s a statistical anomaly, a bizarre outlier.

Did fate direct Ripper to her path as one of the world’s only white female western qawwali players? Or was it chance and opportunity?

You be the judge.

Show Notes:

  1. [00:10] “Villager” by Blue Dot Sessions
  2. [02:25] “Villa” by Blue Dot Sessions
  3. [04:40] “Allah Hu” by the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Party
  4. [06:35] Shahzad Bashir
  5. [06:40] “Snowmelt” by Blue Dot Sessions
  6. [08:35] Fanna-Fi-Allah
    1. Side note: They’re working on a documentary project about qawwali music. See here.
  7. [08:40] On Ripper’s conversion to Islam.
  8. [09:00] “Allah Hu” by Fanna-Fi-Allah
  9. [10:35] “McKrary” by Blue Dot Sessions
  10. [11:20] Richard Michos performing with Shabaz
  11. [13:00] Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
  12. [13:05] “O Re Piya” by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
  13. [13:25] More on Dildar Hussain
  14. [13:25] “Tanam Farsuda Jan Para” by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Party
  15. [13:55] Nusrat’s collaboration with Michael Brook
  16. [13:56] “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel
  17. [14:20] Nusrat’s obituary in The New York Times
  18. [15:10] “Banjo” by Blue Dot Sessions
  19. [16:09] Yassir Chadly
  20. [18:20] “Grand Caravan” by Blue Dot Sessions
  21. [18:20] A neat infographic of what Islam looks like.
  22. [18:25] Additional reading on Sufism and the current state of Islam
  23. [19:00] Some online dialogue about music in Islam
  24. [19:45] Background on 2010 Lahore Bombing
  25. [20:50] Tabla played by Jessica Ripper
  26. [21:45] The Urs of Baba Farid
  27. [21:50] On Baba Farid
  28. [27:15] “3rd Chair” by Blue Dot Sessions
  29. [28:03] “Ya Mustafa” by Fanna-Fi-Allah performed at the Urs of Baba Farid
  30. [30:05] Riffat Sultana
    1. Recommended listening
  31. [30:10] Ustad Salamat Ali Khan
  32. [31:50] “Bliste” by Blue Dot Sessions
  33. [36:00] Abidah Parveen with members of Fanna-Fi-Allah
  34. [39:05] “Illway” by Blue Dot Sessions
  35. [41:40] “Xandre” by Blue Dot Sessions
  36. [43:55] “Holo” by Blue Dot Sessions
  37. The project that started this story:
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