Music In Arabia

Author : Issa Boulos,Virginia Danielson,Anne K. Rasmussen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253057518

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Music in Arabia by Issa Boulos,Virginia Danielson,Anne K. Rasmussen Pdf

Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage. Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this collection presents fresh perspectives and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transnational communities. The volume also examines music circulation as a commodity, such as with the production of early recordings, the transnational music industry, the context of the Arab Spring, and the region's popular music markets. As a bonus, readers can access a linked website containing audiovisual examples of the music, dance, and expressive culture introduced throughout the book. With the work of resident scholars and heritage practitioners in conversation with that of researchers from the United States and Europe, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.

Author : Issa Boulos,Virginia Danielson,Anne K. Rasmussen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253057525

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Music in Arabia by Issa Boulos,Virginia Danielson,Anne K. Rasmussen Pdf

Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage. Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this collection presents fresh perspectives and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transnational communities. The volume also examines music circulation as a commodity, such as with the production of early recordings, the transnational music industry, the context of the Arab Spring, and the region's popular music markets. As a bonus, readers can access a linked website containing audiovisual examples of the music, dance, and expressive culture introduced throughout the book. With the work of resident scholars and heritage practitioners in conversation with that of researchers from the United States and Europe, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.

Author : Lisa Urkevich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135628161

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Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula by Lisa Urkevich Pdf

Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula provides a pioneering overview of folk and traditional urban music, along with dance and rituals, of Saudi Arabia and the Upper Gulf States of Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. The nineteen chapters introduce variegated regions and subcultures and their rich and dynamic musical arts, many of which heretofore have been unknown beyond local communities. The book contains insightful descriptions of genres, instruments, poetry, and performance practices of the desert heartland (Najd), the Arabian/Persian Gulf shores, the great western cities including Makkah and Medinah, the southwestern mountains, and the hot Red Sea coast. Musical customs of distinctive groups such as Bedouin, seafarers, and regional women are explored. The book is packaged with an audio CD and almost 200 images including a full color photo essay, numerous music transcriptions, a glossary with over 400 specialized terms, and original Arabic script alongside key words to assist with further research. This book provides a much-needed introduction and organizational structure for the diverse and complex musical arts of the region.

Author : Johnny Farraj,Sami Abu Shumays
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190658380

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Inside Arabic Music by Johnny Farraj,Sami Abu Shumays Pdf

What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich and diverse without resorting to harmony? Why is it so challenging to transcribe Arabic music from a recording? Inside Arabic Music answers these and many other questions from the perspective of two "insiders" to the practice of Arabic music, by documenting a performance culture and a know-how that is largely passed on orally. Arabic music has spread across the globe, influencing music from Greece all the way to India in the mid-20th century through radio and musical cinema, and global popular culture through Raqs Sharqi, known as "Bellydance" in the West. Yet despite its popularity and influence, Arabic music, and the maqam scale system at its heart, remain widely misunderstood. Inside Arabic Music de-mystifies maqam with an approach that draws theory directly from practice, and presents theoretical insights that will be useful to practitioners, from the beginner to the expert - as well as those interested in the related Persian, Central Asian, and Turkish makam traditions. Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an approach parallel to Gjerdingen's analysis of Galant-period music - offering a lens into the deeper relationships among music, culture, and human community.

Author : A. J. Racy,Ali Jihad Racy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316855

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Making Music in the Arab World by A. J. Racy,Ali Jihad Racy Pdf

A.J. Racy, a scholar of ethnomusicology, provides an intimate portrayal of the Arab musical experience in this pioneering book. Racy focuses on tarab, a multifaceted concept that has no exact equivalent in English and refers to the indigenous music and the ecstasy associated with it. His book examines aspects of musical craft, including basic skills, musician's inspiration, love lyrics as tools of ecstasy, and the relationship between performers and listeners.

Author : Michael Aaron Frishkopf
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9774162935

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Music and Media in the Arab World by Michael Aaron Frishkopf Pdf

Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media disseminationDLfrom phonograph cylinders to MP3sDLeach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has become a powerful social force. While parallel processes have unfolded worldwide, their implications in the Arabic-speaking world have thus far received little scholarly attention. This provocative volume features sixteen new essays examining these issues, especially televised music and the controversial new genre of the music video. Perceptive voicesDLboth emerging and establishedDLrepresent a wide variety of academic disciplines. Incisive essays by Egyptian critics display the textures of public Arabic discourse to an English readership. Authors address the key issues of contemporary Arab societyDLgender and sexuality, Islam, class, economy, power, and nationDLas refracted through the culture of mediated music. Interconnected by a web of recurrent concepts, this collection transcends music to become an important resource for the study of contemporary Arab society and culture. Contributors: Wael Abdel Fattah, Yasser Abdel-Latif, Moataz Abdel Aziz, Tamim Al-Barghouti, Mounir Al Wassimi, Walter Armbrust, Elisabeth Cestor, Hani Darwish, Walid El Khachab, Abdel-Wahab Elmessiri, James Grippo, Patricia Kubala, Katherine Meizel, Zein Nassar, Ibrahim Saleh, Laith Ulaby.

Author : Thomas Burkhalter,Kay Dickinson,Benjamin J. Harbert
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819573872

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The Arab Avant-Garde by Thomas Burkhalter,Kay Dickinson,Benjamin J. Harbert Pdf

The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational techniques, performance styles, political motivations, professional trainings, and inter-continental collaborations that claim the mantle of "innovation" within Arab and Arab diaspora music. While most books on Middle Eastern music-making focus on notions of tradition and regionally specific genres, The Arab Avant Garde presents a radically hybrid and globally dialectic set of practices. Engaging the "avant-garde"—a term with Eurocentric resonances—this anthology disturbs that presumed exclusivity, drawing on and challenging a growing body of literature about alternative modernities. Chapters delve into genres and modes as diverse as jazz, musical theatre, improvisation, hip hop, and heavy metal as performed in countries like Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and the United States. Focusing on multiple ways in which the "Arab avant-garde" becomes manifest, this anthology brings together international writers with eclectic disciplinary trainings—practicing musicians, area studies specialists, ethnomusicologists, and scholars of popular culture and media. Contributors include Sami W. Asmar, Michael Khoury, Saed Muhssin, Marina Peterson, Kamran Rastegar, Caroline Rooney, and Shayna Silverstein, as well as the editors.

Author : Habib Touma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018466263

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The Music of the Arabs by Habib Touma Pdf

Composer and musicologist Touma provides an overview of Arabic music through history to contemporary production, and elucidates typical musical structures for secular and sacred, instrumental and vocal, improvised and composed music. He also explains the unique modal system and improvisation style. Includes a glossary, a guide to pronouncing the transliterated alphabet, and a discography. A seven-song, 75-minute companion CD is available for $15.98. First published in German in 1989 and previously translated into French and Italian. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Julián Ribera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Arabs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038229626

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Music in Ancient Arabia and Spain by Julián Ribera Pdf

Author : Dalia Cohen,Ruth Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226112992

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Palestinian Arab Music by Dalia Cohen,Ruth Katz Pdf

Sound disc consists of digitally remastered musical selections originally recorded by the authors.

Author : Afif Alvarez Bulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Arabs
ISBN : UOM:39015020686740

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Handbook of Arabic Music by Afif Alvarez Bulos Pdf

Author : Ruth Frances Davis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810851385

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Maʻlūf by Ruth Frances Davis Pdf

This is the only book in the English language on Tunisian music, or on any national tradition of Arab Andalusian music, and it is the only book in any language to survey changes in the ma'luf since its modern revival in the early 20th Century within the framework of social, political, and musical developments in Tunisia and the wider Middle East. The author explores topics such as Arab music theory, modernization, westernization, and Egyptianization; the use of notation in oral tradition; and cultural policy. The relations between traditional music and the mass media are also considered, and the conclusions of this study have a significance that will extend beyond Tunisian and Middle Eastern music to ethnomusicology as a whole.

Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521898072

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture by Dwight F. Reynolds Pdf

An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.

Author : Leo Plenckers
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789699333

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Arab Music: A Survey of Its History and Its Modern Practice by Leo Plenckers Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from its pre-Islamic roots until 1970, as well as a discussion of the major genres and forms practiced today, such as the Egyptian gīl, the Algerian raï and Palestinian hip hop; it also touches upon musical instruments and folk music.

Author : Francisco Salvador-Daniel
Publisher : London : W. Reeves
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Music
ISBN : MINN:319510023402787

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The Music and Musical Instruments of the Arab by Francisco Salvador-Daniel Pdf