Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean (Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa)
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (701 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0253017629 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A major intervention into the emergent field of Andalusian music studies: it is amongst the first full-blown anthropological studies of these traditions, and the first to attempt a cross-cultural comparative perspective. Through its comparative and cross-cultural perspective, Performing al-Andalus is accessible to a wide audience, addressing particularly those interested in how music interacts with memory cultures, ideologies of belonging and their circulation within a transnational context." Ethnomusicology Forum"Performing al-Andalus is a timely intervention in one of the most crucial debates of our time: the relationship between the Arab world and the West. A thought-provoking and illuminating study of the role played by the image and memory of al-Andalus in the modern Mediterranean world." Carl Davila, SUNY College at
Dr. Debra Jan Bibel said Music and Ideals, Attachments and Denials. This important, scholarly and thorough book, which is as much a discussion of socio-mythology as of musicology, puts into focus how affiliation with a particular place in medieval times has permeated Mediterranean peoples and beyond, particularly Arabs, Spaniards, and Jews, and today affects geo-politics and global fusion music. A cultural nostalgia exists by those with absolutely no experience even with shards of the ancient culture. The Golden Age of Arab culture, as reinforced even in the film Lawrence of Arabia, is al-Andalus, Moorish Spain. The utopian notion o
He is author of Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria and A Wintry Day in Damascus: Syrian Stories.. Jonathan Holt Shannon is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY
Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage animates performers and aficionados in modern-day Syria, Morocco, and Spain, but with varying and sometimes contradictory meanings in different social and political contexts. Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. As he traces the movements of musicians, songs, histories, and memories circulating around the Mediterranean, he argues that atten