A History Of The Middle East Soundrecording

Author : Dale Hudson,Alia Yunis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253067593

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Reorienting the Middle East by Dale Hudson,Alia Yunis Pdf

Stories of desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is the flow of film and digital media between cultures in East Africa, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary aspects of film and digital media in the Gulf that might not otherwise be apparent in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the 1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the development of film festivals and cinemas, and short films made by citizens and migrants that turn a lens on racism, sexism, national identity, and other rarely discussed social issues. Reorienting the Middle East offers new methods to analyze the often-neglected littoral spaces between nation-states and regions and to understand the role of film and digital media in shaping dialogue between area studies and film and media studies. Readers will find new pathways to rethink the limitations of dominant categories and frameworks in both fields.

Author : Christopher Silver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503631694

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Recording History by Christopher Silver Pdf

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices—of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons—whose music still resonates well into our present.

Author : Sharron Gu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786470594

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A Cultural History of the Arabic Language by Sharron Gu Pdf

This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual performance, the arts and architecture. The thousands-of-years-old language is perhaps more highly developed and refined than any other on earth. This book focuses on what is unique about Arabic compared to other major languages of the world (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, English and Spanish) and how the distinct characteristics of Arabic took shape at various points in its history. The book provides a cultural background for understanding social and political institutions and religious beliefs--more influenced by the rhythms and depths of poetic language than other cultures--in the Middle East today.

Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781948436632

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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Middle East (1889-2021) by William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi Pdf

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 47 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015054490506

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Music, Books on Music, and Sound Recordings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : James T. Lawrence
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1590339339

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Human Rights in the Near East and North Africa by James T. Lawrence Pdf

The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Near East and North Africa, and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.

Author : Daniel Dishon
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1968-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0878551670

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Middle East Record by Daniel Dishon Pdf

The politics and international relations of the countries of the Middle East are meticulously recorded in this series. This survey of political developments in the Middle East is the only reference work of its kind and is more comprehensive than any publication in its field. The Middle East Record is a fully documented chronological record, arranged according to topics, and based on extensive research. In compiling MER, more than two hundred newspapers, periodicals, and official publications in Middle Eastern and other languages are regularly scanned, many additional publications are consulted, and great care is taken to present all relevant viewpoints on every question. The aim of this work is to present the facts in full detail and from the widest possible variety of sources. The material is presented under four categories: * A record of political developments in the region, comprising quoted material only, and including interpretations of these developments and comment from within the area. * A presentation of political thought and ideological developments as they evolved during the year under review, against the background of the major conceptual trends in the area. * An assessment of great power policies as interpreted by the powers and by Middle Eastern regimes. * Factual summaries of the above categories, correlating the different aspects and outlining the patterns of developments, while refraining from making judgements. Many topics are presented in maps and tables. Extensive background notes, cross-references, and indexes have been included. The area covered extends to Turkey in the north, Iran in the east, the UAR in the west, and the Republic of South Yemen in the south. Future volumes will also include Libya and Sudan. In presenting the material, emphasis is laid on the dynamic aspect. The MER is not an almanac reflecting a static picture; it is a record of change, flux, and movement.

Author : Virginia Danielson,Dwight Reynolds,Scott Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544177

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Virginia Danielson,Dwight Reynolds,Scott Marcus Pdf

Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of typical musicmakers and their art, as well as first-person descriptions of specific music performances and events. Also includes maps and music examples.

Author : Anne E. Baker,Kees Hengeveld
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780631230359

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Linguistics by Anne E. Baker,Kees Hengeveld Pdf

Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languages Explores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and sounds Introduces psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues, including language acquisition, neurolinguistics, language variation, language change, language contact, and multilingualism Written in a problem-oriented style to engage readers, and is ideal for those new to the subject Incorporates numerous student-friendly features throughout, including extensive exercises, summaries, assignments, and suggestions for further reading Based on the bestselling Dutch edition of this work, the English edition has been revised and expanded to offer an up-to-date and engaging survey of linguistics for students new to the field

Author : Tarik Sabry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857724854

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Arab Cultural Studies by Tarik Sabry Pdf

'Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field' is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab Cultural Studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more. The book presents a meta-narrative about how scholars have thus far thought and re-thought the field. It brings together prominent and emerging experts, writing from both Arab and Western academia, to engage with key complex, epistemic and methodological questions and to articulate in the meantime the new kinds of language and hermeneutics necessary for the appropriation of an historically conscious and coherent field of scientific enquiry into contemporary Arab media, culture and society.

Author : Silvana Di Paolo
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918545

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Composite Artefacts in the Ancient Near East by Silvana Di Paolo Pdf

This volume represents a first attempt to conceptualise the construction and use of composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East by looking at the complex relationships between environments, materials, societies and materiality.

Author : Daniel Dishon
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 1414 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0878552189

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Middle East Record, 1969-70 by Daniel Dishon Pdf

Author : Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819570628

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Wired for Sound by Paul D. Greene,Thomas Porcello Pdf

Winner of the Society for Ethnmusicology's Klaus Wachsmann Award (2006) Wired for Sound is the first anthology to address the role of sound engineering technologies in the shaping of contemporary global music. Wired sound is at the basis of digital audio editing, multi-track recording, and other studio practices that have powerfully impacted the world's music. Distinctions between musicians and engineers increasingly blur, making it possible for people around the globe to imagine new sounds and construct new musical aesthetics. This collection of 11 essays employs primarily ethnographical, but also historical and psychological, approaches to examine a range of new, technology-intensive musics and musical practices such as: fusions of Indian film-song rhythms, heavy metal, and gamelan in Jakarta; urban Nepali pop which juxtaposes heavy metal, Tibetan Buddhist ritual chant, rap, and Himalayan folksongs; collaborations between Australian aboriginals and sound engineers; the production of "heaviness" in heavy metal music; and the production of the "Austin sound." This anthology is must reading for anyone interested in the global character of contemporary music technology. CONTRIBUTORS: Harris M. Berger, Beverley Diamond, Cornelia Fales, Ingemar Grandin, Louise Meintjes, Frederick J. Moehn, Karl Neunfeldt, Timothy D. Taylor, Jeremy Wallach.

Author : Ian van der Waag
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928480914

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Sights, Sounds, Memories by Ian van der Waag Pdf

The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.

Author : Johan Jarlbrink,Patrik Lundell,Pelle Snickars
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228015284

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From Big Bang to Big Data by Johan Jarlbrink,Patrik Lundell,Pelle Snickars Pdf

Does media history really start with a bang? More than just newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is communicated, from cosmic radiation traces to medieval church bells to modern identity documents. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths. From Big Bang to Big Data is a long history of the media – how it has been established, used, and transformed from the beginning of recorded time until the present. It is not primarily a story of revolutions and innovations, but of continuities and overlaps that reveal surprising patterns across history. Many media were invented as ways to store and share information, and many have served as powerful tools for administration and control. The concerns raised about media today, whether about privacy, piracy, or anxieties over declining cultural standards, preoccupied earlier generations too. In a playful style, accompanied by more than one hundred illustrations, the authors show us how every society has been a media society in its own way. From antique graffiti to last year’s viral YouTube clip, the past is only approachable through media. From Big Bang to Big Data provides a new way of thinking about media in history – and about human societies past and present.