Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

When Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948?1997) flashed into the American world music scene in the early '90s, "Pakistan" and "Islam" were not the charged words they have become. But the appeal of the huge man with the huge voice has persisted through the changes of history and his death. Khan sang qawwali ("utterance"), a religious mode from the antifundamentalist Sufi culture. The basic...