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- noun music A form of
punk music orhip-hop that deals withIslamic culture or issues
Etymologies
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Muslim punkers call their brand of music taqwacore — a blend of the Arabic word for piety, taqwa, and "hard-core," the English word for musicians who want to be taken very seriously.
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For example, the Kominas, a Punjabi taqwacore punk band, sport mohawks and tattoos as they thrash on stage singing Suicide Bomb the Gap.
Wajahat Ali: The Redefining of Muslim Art by The Obama Generation 2009
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Labels: punk muslims, taqwacore posted by dubjay at 1:45 PM
Archive 2008-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008
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Labels: punk muslims, taqwacore posted by dubjay at 1:45 PM
Taqwacores Walter Jon Williams 2008
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By the time everyone gathered in Park City, Utah for the festival, it felt like a mini taqwacore conference.
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The title of the Kominas album, Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay already gives something of an insight of what the songs might be. taqwacore movement.
Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead Guest/USA 2009
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In the first part of the film, Knight organizes a taqwacore tour of the U.S., bringing the Kominas, Vancouver-based Islamic riot-grrl trio Secret Trial Five, and a shapeshifting crew on the road.
RaceWire 2009
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Yusef is an engineering student in Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts, a mostly straightedge Sunni Pakistani American, a "Hey, Little Rich Boy," the chronicler of the taqwacore (taqwa = piety) experience, maybe a poseur, definitely a Muslim with a crisis of faith.
Bookslut 2009
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I feel that taqwacore is still in the process of defining itself, but the name is derived from the words "taqwa" (God-conscioussnes), and hardcore.
Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead Guest/USA 2009
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Revolution "), which figures in the nascent taqwacore, or Islamic punk, scene; Subhi Jasser, who moved to Chicago with his family in 2009 after he'd been kidnapped by militants in Baghdad and his house raided by U.S. soldiers; Ray Hanania, a Christian Palestinian-American columnist, radio host, and comedian who's also a Vietnam vet and Cicero's town spokesman; and
Chicago Reader 2010
qms commented on the word taqwacore
Might a mullah put out a fatwa for
Suppression of noxious taqwacore?
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October 20, 2015