Reaching Young Muslims with Music

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 26, 2014

Hisham Aidi, lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs and the Institute of African Affairs at Columbia University and the author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture talks about the use of music -- jazz, hip hop, reggae Gnawa -- to reach young Muslims from post- WWII to today.

Listen: Rebel Music Playlist as Recommended by Hisham Aidi

Rebel Music: Songs Recommended by Hisham Aidi from blshow on 8tracks Radio.

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