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Book Chapters
Rabbani, Golam. “Non-consumerism, Meditation, and Wellbeing: Music Education in Baul Communities and Folk Industries in Bangladesh.” In Music Education in South Asia: Context and Practice, edited by André de Quadros and Sandra Oberoi. London: Routledge, 2026.
Rabbani, Golam. “Ecocentrism and Bauls: Lalon and Radharaman’s Meditative Activism.” In Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader, edited by Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, and Munasir Kamal. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 195–206.
Rabbani, Golam. “Music Industries, Spiritual Lyrics and Folklore: From Bhakti Poetry to Bauls.” In Routledge Handbook of Bangladeshi Literary Culture, edited by Shamsad Mortuza and Kaiser Haq. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Rabbani, Golam. “Weaver’s Music: Folk Songs and Creative Industries in Bangladesh.” Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 13, no. 1 (2026): 252–273.
Rabbani, Golam. “Spiritual Leadership in Baul Folk Traditions: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Creative Organisations.” Advances in Social Sciences and Management 3, no. 3 (2025): 17–30.
Rabbani, Golam. “Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh.” Comparative Media Arts Journal 6. Simon Fraser University, 2019.
Rabbani, Golam. “Discrimination in ‘the City’: Race, Class, and Gender in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 5 (2019): 128–135.
Rabbani, Golam. “When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola.” Reconstruction: Regionalism, Regional Identity and Queer Asian Cinema 16, no. 2 (2016).
Rabbani, Golam. “Darwin, Cognition and Literary Evocations of the Mind: The Case of Requiem for a Nun.” Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies 3–4 (2014): 21–28.
Rabbani, Golam. “Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism.” Journalism and Mass Communication 3, no. 5 (2013): 304–312.
Rabbani, Golam. “Gender Hegemony in Feminist Film: ‘Woman-Hero’ and Identity Politics in Rudaali.” Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature 27 (2011–2012).
Rabbani, Golam. “Decentering the Hegemonic ‘Centre’: ‘Palabras Liminares’ and Ruben Darío’s Poetic Identity.” Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature 26 (2010–2011).
Rabbani, Golam. “Reality TV or Voyeur TV: Television Shows Instigating Voyeurism.” Nrivijnana Patrika: Journal of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University 16 (2011).
Rabbani, Golam. “The Quest for Wording the Word: Communication Crisis and Alienation of Language in Wole Soyinka’s The Road.” Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature 25 (2009–2010).
Rabbani, Golam. “Stage within Stage: Naturalism and Spatial Dimensions in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.” Harvest: Jahangirnagar Studies in Language and Literature 24 (2008–2009).
Rabbani, Golam. “Staging the Stage: The Expressionist Manifestation of Spatial Discourse and Colour in August Strindberg’s Ett Drömspel (A Dream Play).” Eastern University Journal 1, no. 2 (2009).
Public Scholarship, Cultural Commentary, and Reviews
Rabbani, Golam. “Bangladeshi Creative Subcultures and Cultural Resilience in Toronto.” South Asia @ LSE, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2025.
Rabbani, Golam. “The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s ‘Deora’.” The Artifice, 2023.
Rabbani, Golam. “Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison.” MUSICultures 49 (2022): 313–316.
Rabbani, Golam. “In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time.” Crossings: ULAB Journal of English Studies 6 (2015): 263–265.
Rabbani, Golam. “Light or Dark Complexion: Colourism in Bangladesh.” NTV Online, 2015.
Dissertation
Rabbani, Golam. “Commodifying Baul Spirituality: Changing Baul Literature and Music in Bangladesh.” PhD dissertation, Queen’s University, 2021.