Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women Singers | |
Author: | Fawzia Afzal-Khan |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Language: | English |
Country: | England |
Genre: | Music history, social history, feminist history |
Pub Date: | August 25, 2020 |
Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women Singers is a book by English scholar Fawzia Afzal-Khan. It explores the history of female singers in Pakistan through a lens of feminist theory.[1] It was published by Oxford University Press on August 25, 2020.[2]
The book follows the history of Pakistan, beginning with the Partition of India in 1947. It is in the context of this history that the book explores the political and social significance of music and women's roles in Pakistani society.[3] [4]