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Recording History - Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Paperback)
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Recording History - Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Paperback)
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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.
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