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1) An updated study of music in the Mediterranean that reconsiders
the region's status as a crossroads between Europe, Africa, and the
Middle East, exploring the encounters of performance and aesthetics
2) Describes how experiences of the Mediterranean are shaped
through musical performance, and attempts to explain what we can we
learn by listening to the musical traditions in this Middle Sea 3)
Explores art, folk, popular, and hybrid musical practices
1) An updated study of music in the Mediterranean that reconsiders
the region’s status as a crossroads between Europe, Africa, and
the Middle East, exploring the encounters of performance and
aesthetics 2) Describes how experiences of the Mediterranean are
shaped through musical performance, and attempts to explain what we
can we learn by listening to the musical traditions in this Middle
Sea 3) Explores art, folk, popular, and hybrid musical practices
Ma'lûf is an Arabic word meaning 'familiar' or 'customary'. In
Tunisia, it is the term used for the indigenous Arab Andalusian
musical tradition. Like the related musical traditions of Morocco,
Algeria, and Libya, the ma'lûf originated in the Islamic courts
and cities of medieval Iberia (Al-Andalus) and is associated with
the migrations of Muslim and Jewish refugees into North Africa in
the wake of the Christian reconquest. This is the first
English-language book on Tunisian music or any national tradition
of Arab Andalusian music, and it is the only book in any language
to survey the recent history of the ma'lûf since its modern
revival in the early 20th century. Drawing from and expanding upon
her extensive body of published writings, this book presents key
aspects of Davis's original research on the ma'lûf, including its
musical aesthetics, personalities, institutions and myths, through
a century of modernization and change from the early twentieth
century to the present day. The text is enriched by original
photographs, musical examples, and song texts in Arabic and English
translation, including a complete transcription of a twenty-minute
performance of a nuba - the principal genre of Arab Andalusian
music.
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.
The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the
dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus
far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and
underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music
history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and
Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume
that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between
music and displacement in theoretical and practical terms.
Contributions by distinguished international scholars address the
theme through a wide range of case studies, incorporating art,
popular, folk, and jazz music and interacting with areas, such as
gender and post-colonial studies, critical theory, migration, and
diaspora. The book is structured in three stages silence,
acculturation, and theory that move from silence to sound and from
displacement to placement. The range of subject matter within these
sections is deliberately hybrid and mirrors the eclectic nature of
displacement itself, with case studies exploring Nazi Anti-Semitism
in musical displacement; musical life in the Jewish community of
Palestine; Mahler, Jewishness, and Jazz; the Irish Diaspora in
England; and German Exile studies, among others. Featuring articles
from such scholars as Ruth F. Davis, Sean Campbell, Jim Samson,
Sydney Hutchinson, and Europea series co-editor Philip V. Bohlman,
the volume exerts an appeal reaching beyond music and musicology to
embrace all areas in the humanities concerned with notions of
displacement, migration, and diaspora."
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