[film] Taqwacore: the birth of punk Islam
Aug. 29th, 2012 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettTaqwacore! It is pretty awesome.
So then I dug out the 2009 documentary, expecting it to be really awesome, and instead found that it focussed entirely on the ~spiritual journey~ of a white dude... via the medium of his collecting a bunch of punk Islam youth and going on a road-trip with them. Almost everything was reflected back through him, rather than through the kids who were actually making the music.
I was disappointed.
On the plus side, it introduced me to Secret Trial Five, a queer political punk rock band fronted by a drag king. (Who have subsequently distanced themselves from taqwacore.) So that's awesome too.
So then I dug out the 2009 documentary, expecting it to be really awesome, and instead found that it focussed entirely on the ~spiritual journey~ of a white dude... via the medium of his collecting a bunch of punk Islam youth and going on a road-trip with them. Almost everything was reflected back through him, rather than through the kids who were actually making the music.
I was disappointed.
On the plus side, it introduced me to Secret Trial Five, a queer political punk rock band fronted by a drag king. (Who have subsequently distanced themselves from taqwacore.) So that's awesome too.