Music And Traditions Of The Arabian Peninsula
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| Author | : Lisa Urkevich |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2014-12-17 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1135628165 |
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 downloadable resources 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 | : Lisa Urkevich |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Arabian Peninsula |
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| Author | : Issa Boulos |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2021-09-07 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0253057515 |
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 | : Dwight F. Reynolds |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2015-04-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521898072 |
An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.
| Author | : Leo Plenckers |
| Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2021-12-16 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1789699339 |
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 | : Amnon Shiloah |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Islamic music |
| ISBN | : 9780814329702 |
Provides basic musicological information about a vast variety of Middle Eastern musical genres within an ethnomusical context.
| Author | : Anne Rasmussen |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2010-08-23 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520255496 |
"Rasmussen has written a classic study of the world of Islamic soundscapes, performances and forms of musical piety in that most complex of societies, Indonesia. With great sensitivity, an alert musical response to players, reciters and audiences, a keen practitioner's ear and eye for subtlety as well as for the complexities of 'noise', she changes common assumptions about Muslim music and, not least, gender in changing Islamic ritual cultures. Her own political awareness and her professional as well as personal relations with women Qu'ran reciters contribute to an exciting an original volume that I recommend to any one exploring the riches of Islamic performances and debates in the contemporary world."—Michael Gilsenan, author of Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society
| Author | : Robert G. Hoyland |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134646348 |
Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming of Islam Using a wide range of sources - inscriptions, poetry, histories, and archaeological evidence - Robert Hoyland explores the main cultural areas of Arabia, from ancient Sheba in the south, to the deserts and oases of the north. He then examines the major themes of *the economy *society *religion *art, architecture and artefacts *language and literature *Arabhood and Arabisation The volume is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, drawings and maps.
| Author | : Rabih Alameddine |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307269272 |
In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Here are Abraham and Isaac; Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes; the beautiful Fatima; Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders; and a host of mischievous imps. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century.
| Author | : Dwight Reynolds |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2020-12-31 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1000289540 |
The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. While the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings, adaptations, hybridizations, and appropriations involved.
