ABSTRACT
Islam and youth culture have rarely been associated within and outside aca-demia. In Europe, the life of young Muslims in Germany, France or Britain are assumed to be either entirely devoted to religion or secular, or overwhelmingly influenced by European youth culture such as pop or hip-hop music. In the 2000s, a new trend has emerged that combined Western pop culture with Islamic substance. Both the Western music scene and traditional forms of Islam have seen a change through the emergence of a musical genre which combines Western style and Muslim lyrics. This chapter analyzes manifestations of contemporary Muslim music and examines this movement and its underlying motives. A vast collection of examples and qualitative interviews with Muslim musicians from France, Britain and Germany serve as the basis for this empirical account.
