Coke Studio Bangla's 'Prarthona': Caught between subversion and co-option?
Through the “Prarthona” composition, Coke Studio Bangla challenges the Wahhabi/Salafi dominant narratives of Islam and promotes an indigenous, mystical, egalitarian, and subversive new “Muslim” identity. However, it does so by appropriating indigenous, folk, and Sufi music traditions, which historically took place in dargahs, and placing it in an experimental studio.
Source: thedailystar.net