{"id":15151,"date":"2020-02-28T10:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/feb\/28\/this-spirituality-liberates-you-sufi-superstar-abida-parveen-set-to-transport-melbourne"},"modified":"2020-02-28T10:06:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T01:06:51","slug":"this-spirituality-liberates-you-sufi-superstar-abida-parveen-set-to-transport-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This spirituality liberates you&#8217;: Sufi superstar Abida Parveen set to transport Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The devotional singer is known to move audiences to a higher plane. Meeting her in Melbourne,<strong> Ben Eltham<\/strong> writes, time went \u2018all bendy and loose\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sufi superstar Abida Parveen \u2013 a giant of world music \u2013 is an arresting presence. Dressed in flowing robes and scarf, her hair a mass of handsome dark curls, she seems to carry a little bubble of grace around with her \u2013 despite being anchored by pink sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Best known for her command of the ghazal, kafi and qawwali \u2013 classic forms of Sufi music and poetry \u2013 the colossal artistic stature of Parveen in her homeland of Pakistan is hard to convey for the western reader. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/6920-musicalnotes\">Kamile Shamsie wrote <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/6920-musicalnotes\"> in 2005<\/a>, \u201cyou could find entire neighbourhoods, possibly towns, in Pakistan where the residents would be delighted to be kept up until dawn by the sound of Parveen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/feb\/28\/this-spirituality-liberates-you-sufi-superstar-abida-parveen-set-to-transport-melbourne\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devotional singer is known to move audiences to a higher plane. Meeting her in Melbourne, Ben Eltham writes, time went \u2018all bendy and loose\u2019Sufi superstar Abida Parveen \u2013 a giant of world music \u2013 is an arresting presence. Dressed in flowing robes a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,71,447,414,425,60,371,61,1170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-culture","category-islam","category-melbourne","category-music","category-pakistan","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sufism"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}