As a young teenager growing up in tappan, new york, ahmad soaks up american culture and is musically and socially affected by an eclectic cast of characters from diverse. The soundtrack is based on salman ahmad and junoons musical journey. Rock musicians, biography, rock music, junoon musical group, popular music. I wrote a couple of paragraphs in the book about it, because of the way that rap music was being used to promote it. Title of the book suggests a dumb effort to sell more books by combining music with jihad, as if the solution to extremism lies in rock and roll. This book chronicles his journey from wideeyed young pakistani to the. Well, when i was thinking of a book title, i thought my passion is rock n roll and the struggle to attain, sort of search for that passion is the jihad and those two words. Moreover, his latest venture, a book titled rock and roll jihad, will also hit the stands soon. I recently read salman ahmads book, rock and roll jihad a muslim rock stars revolution. When student extremists disrupted his performance with a lahore highschool band, ahmad vowed to wage a rock and roll jihad to encourage a cosmic oneness that sees no cultural boundaries. Through regime changes, ahmad and his crew are steadfast in their belief in tolerance, humanity, and justiceand determined to rock out in the process.
Book rock band contact page rock artists for hire 908. Rock star urges muslim students in queens to rock out. They were doing the same thing that the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s did with rock and roll by creating jesus rock to revolutionize the church. Acrassicauda acrassicauda latin for black scorpion is a heavy metal rock. Rock and roll jihad bridges divides, warms hearts huffpost. It took me four long and lonely years to finish this book. Salman ahmad is a pakistani rock star whose band junoon has sold over 25 million albums. Facing down angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who wanted all music to be banned from the islamic republic of pakistan, salman ahmad rocketed to the top of the music charts, bringing westernstyle rock and pop to. The album features five new studio recordings along with five live tracks from the concert for pakistan and the album was officially released on june 1, 2010. Salman ahmad is the founder and lead guitarist of junoon, the pakistani band that took india by storm at the end of the 90s.
It captures the essence of his growth and contribution to this subgenre. Facing down angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who wanted all music to be banned from the islamic republic of pakistan, salman ahmad rocketed to the top of the music charts, bringing westernstyle rock and pop to pakistani teenagers for the first time. A muslim rock stars revolution, documents salmans serendipitous rise from humble beginnings to superstardom. In this autobiography, ahmad, the leader of the band junoon, re. The story you are about to read is the story of a lightbringersalman ahmad inspires me to reach always for the greatest heights and never to fear.
Classic rock music booking agency hire top rock artists, bands, musicians and entertainers, 9089388307. Jul 16, 2019 open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. A muslim rock stars revolution from the worlds largest community of readers. Facing down angry mullahs and oppressive dictators who wanted all music to be banned from the islamic republic of pakistan, salman ahmad rocketed to the top of the music. The story you are about to read is the story of a lightbringer. A muslim rock stars revolution pdf online get this book immediately from this website. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Music department of religion the george washington. A muslim rock stars revolution kindle edition by ahmad, salman. All through my life people have wondered, why i chose passion over profession, music over medicine and led an unconventional life style. Salman ahmad came upon some serious roadblocks on the road to becoming a rock musician. At 18, he returned with his family to a pakistan ruled by a dictator who considered western rock sinful.
Salmans story began in new york, where he spent his teen years learning to play guitar, hanging out at rock clubs, making american friends, and dreaming of rock star fame. This book chronicles his junoon lead guitarist salman ahmads journey from wideeyed young pakistani. There is something unusually compelling about his combination of total. As a young teenager growing up in tappan, new york, ahmad soaks up american. Jan 24, 2017 salman ahmad came upon some serious roadblocks on the road to becoming a rock musician. In 1990, the soul of pakistan was up for grabs in an epic struggle. A muslim rock stars revolution by salman ahmad free press, 230 pp. It is a biography of the author regarding his time with his rock band junoon and all the struggle he faced to become a rockstar in pakistan. I think i can say more about the title than i can about the content which, at least in the. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Rock and roll jihad this book chronicles his junoon lead guitarist salman ahmads journey from wideeyed young pakistani. Salman ahmads band, junoon, can boast of being the most popular rock group in south asia but its larger signifi cance is that music, poetry, politics, and humanitarianism have been the core elements of salmans personal quest.