Khozanatu Lahpan, Neneng Yanti --- "The lawfulness of music in contemporary Indonesian debate" [2018] ELECD 678; in Hosen, Nadirsyah (ed), "Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 350

Book Title: Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society

Editor(s): Hosen, Nadirsyah

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781781003053

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: The lawfulness of music in contemporary Indonesian debate

Author(s): Khozanatu Lahpan, Neneng Yanti

Number of pages: 21

Abstract/Description:

This chapter examines the lawfulness of music in contemporary Indonesian discourse. There has long been a debate among Muslims scholars on this issue, but the chapter goes further by looking at the Indonesian local context in West Java, where ethnicity and politics play their parts. It provides an insight that what we consider to be ‘Islamic’ music does not need to be in the Arabic language nor to employ Arabic songs and instruments.