Part 1 Preface Part 2 Note Chapter 3 1 The Nuba and the Arab Garden Chapter 4 2 The Baron Rodophe d'Erlanger Chapter 5 3 The Rashidiyya Institute: From Oral to Written Tradition Chapter 6 4 Cultural Policy and the Ma'luf of Testour Chapter 7 5 The Ma'luf, Popular Song and the Mass Media Chapter 8 6 Voices of the Nineties Part 9 References Part 10 Index Part 11 About the Author
Ruth F. Davis is Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
This volume serves as a good example of how one can apply
reflective methods to ethnomusicology. Recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates and above.
*CHOICE*
'A delight to read ... the clarity of Davis's writing opens doors
for many. The confluence of historical sources and the author's
sensitive ethnographic study of contemporary practices enriches the
texture of the music itself. Ma'luf provides a non-European
perspective on nationalism that has long been wanting in studies of
modernity. The book fully deserves to become a standard text in the
study of music in the Middle East/North Africa.'
*Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of
Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago*
'This is an important work that provides a critical, clear and
concise analysis of the impact of Tunisian cultural nationalism on,
and through, the medium of music.'
*Ethnomusicology Forum*
The musical form, like related Arab musical traditions in Morocco,
Algeria, and Libya, is alleged to have been brought to North Africa
by Muslims and Jews fleeing the Christian reconquest of Spain from
the 10th to the 17th centuries. Davis (ethnomusicology, U. of
Cambridge) examines the music in such terms as Arab musical
aesthetics; modernization, Westernization, and Egyptianization; the
use of notation in oral tradition; musical nationalism and cultural
policy; concepts of art and popular; and relations between
traditional music and the mass media.
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