For nearly eight centuries - from the Muslim conquest of Spain in
711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 - Muslims, Jews and
Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating
Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish
and Arabic- speaking Jews joined pre-existing diasporic communities
and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In
the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals in
the former Ottoman and European-occupied territories led to the
mass exodus of Jews from Turkey and the Arab Mediterranean, with
the majority settling in Israel. Following a trajectory from
medieval Al-Andalus to present-day Israel via North Africa, Italy,
Turkey and Syria, pausing for perspectives from Enlightenment
Europe, Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas tells
of diverse song and instrumental traditions born of the multiple
musical encounters between Jews and their Muslim and Christian
neighbors in different Mediterranean diasporas, and the revival and
renewal of those traditions in present-day Israel. In this
collection of essays from Philip V. Bohlman, Daniel Jutte, Tony
Langlois, Piergabriele Mancuso, John O'Connell, Vanessa Paloma,
Carmel Raz, Dwight Reynolds, Edwin Seroussi, and Jonathan Shannon,
with opening and closing contributions by Ruth F. Davis and Stephen
Blum, distinguished ethnomusicologists, cultural historians,
linguists and performers explore from multidisciplinary
perspectives the complex and diverse processes and conditions of
intercultural and intracultural musical encounters. The authors
consider how musical traditions acquired new functions and meanings
in different social, political and diasporic contexts; explore the
historical role of Jewish musicians as cultural intermediaries
between the different faith communities; and examine how music is
implicated in projects of remembering and forgetting as societies
come to terms with mass exodus by reconstructing their narratives
of the past. The essays in Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its
Jewish Diasporas extend beyond the music of medieval Iberia and its
Mediterranean Jewish diasporas to wider aspects of Jewish-Christian
and Jewish-Muslim relations. The authors offer new perspectives on
theories of musical interaction, hybridization, and the cultural
meaning of musical expression in diasporic and minority
communities. The essays address how music is implicated in
constructions of ethnicity and nationhood and of myth and history,
while also examining the resurgence of Al-Andalus as a symbol in
musical projects that claim to promote cross-cultural understanding
and peace. The diverse scholarship in Musical Exodus makes a vital
contribution to scholars of music and European and Jewish history.
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