This is even expressed in the names of some of the groups, which contain the element ria 'cheerful, merry'. They represent those elements and processes in contemporary Indonesian life that are also the focus of other dakwah activities. My activities with ethnomusicology colleagues and students would, I assumed, occur in parallel with the appointments I had made with reciters. Qasidah moderen interfaces with several kinds of music, some of which have inspired it, others of which have been inspired by it, while some have done both at different times and in different places. While on paper the texts may well appear boring and unconvincing, this will not be so obvious in their sung form.
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