{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 008 \u2014 It Goes Both Ways","description":"\u201cThy will be done. Thy will be done. I don\u2019t know. Please, I don\u2019t know.\u201d -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\u2019s an Islamic-gospel musician who plays the tabla. In the 700-year-old sufi-singing tradition of Qawwali, she\u2019s a female trailblazer shattering century-old glass ceilings from sufi shrine to sufi shrine. And everywhere else, she\u2019s a statistical anomaly, a bizarre outlier. Did fate direct Ripper to her path as one of the world\u2019s only white female western qawwali players? Or was it chance and opportunity? You be the judge. Show Notes: [00:10] \u201cVillager\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [02:25] \u201cVilla\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [04:40] \u201cAllah Hu\u201d by the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Party [06:35] Shahzad Bashir [06:40] \u201cSnowmelt\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [08:35] Fanna-Fi-Allah Side note: They\u2019re working on a documentary project about qawwali music. See here. [08:40] On Ripper\u2019s conversion to Islam. [09:00] \u201cAllah Hu\u201d by Fanna-Fi-Allah [10:35] \u201cMcKrary\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [11:20] Richard Michos performing with Shabaz [13:00] Rahat Fateh Ali Khan [13:05] \u201cO Re Piya\u201d by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan [13:25] More on Dildar Hussain [13:25] \u201cTanam Farsuda Jan Para\u201d by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Party [13:55] Nusrat\u2019s collaboration with Michael Brook [13:56] \u201cIn Your Eyes\u201d by Peter Gabriel [14:20] Nusrat\u2019s obituary in The New York Times [15:10] \u201cBanjo\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [16:09] Yassir Chadly [18:20] \u201cGrand Caravan\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [18:20] A neat infographic of what Islam looks like. [18:25] Additional reading on Sufism and the current state of Islam [19:00] Some online dialogue about music in Islam [19:45] Background on 2010 Lahore Bombing [20:50] Tabla played by Jessica Ripper [21:45] The Urs of Baba Farid [21:50] On Baba Farid [27:15] \u201c3rd Chair\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [28:03] \u201cYa Mustafa\u201d by Fanna-Fi-Allah performed at the Urs of Baba Farid [30:05] Riffat Sultana Recommended listening [30:10] Ustad Salamat Ali Khan [31:50] \u201cBliste\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [36:00] Abidah Parveen with members of Fanna-Fi-Allah [39:05] \u201cIllway\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [41:40] \u201cXandre\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions [43:55] \u201cHolo\u201d by Blue Dot Sessions The project that started this story: Written Video Download Flipboard on your phone, connect to strong WiFi and open flip.it\/tabla in the mobile app for a unique story experience. ","author_name":"Some Noise","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thisissomenoise.com","html":"