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Especially after 1950, the rise of Western-influenced commercial popular music affected Middle Eastern art music, which now employs less improvisation and more strict unison between parts, in shorter pieces. The Middle East has been an important source of musical instruments for other parts of the world. Bagpipes, guitar, lute, oboe, tambourine ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 24, 2015 · This chapter provides a broad description of music and popular culture in the Middle East. It attempts a brief review of recent and distinctive anthropological scholarship on the topic and explores several key roles that music played in the revolutions and upheavals following 2011.
- John Philip Rode Schaefer
- 2015
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- The history of Islamic music
The earliest extant writings on Islamic music are from the end of the 9th century, more than 250 years after the advent of Islam. In the absence of historical documents, musicians, writers, and philosophers began to speculate on the origins of their music. They filled the gaps by legendary sources or vague traditions. Thus, Lamak is said to have ma...
The earliest extant writings on Islamic music are from the end of the 9th century, more than 250 years after the advent of Islam. In the absence of historical documents, musicians, writers, and philosophers began to speculate on the origins of their music. They filled the gaps by legendary sources or vague traditions. Thus, Lamak is said to have ma...
Mar 6, 2021 · However popular the music and its biggest stars, there was a fundamental difference between the era of Umm Kulthum and the other first generation stars of Arab, Turkish, Iranian, African, and South and Southeast Asian musical scenes, which were continuing the tradition of “tarab” or art music constituted by the long historical tradition of listening and responding to virtuosic vocal and ...
Included are a review of recent anthropological scholarship on Middle Eastern music and popular culture, an evaluation of the role played by music in the Middle Eastern revolutions, and an indication that future research trajectories must account for seismic shifts in media production and circulation. This thesis will critically discuss ...
- John Schaefer
Making Music in the Arab World The Culture and Artistry of ˇarab A. J. Racy is well known as a scholar of ethnomusicology and as a distinguished performer and composer. In this pioneering study on music in the Arab world, he provides an intimate portrayal of the Arab musical experience and offers insights into how music generally affects us all.
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A superficial glance at the ethnomusicology of the Muslim-majority Middle East might suggest it is peculiarly exposed to historiographical problems now familiar thanks to decades of orientalism critique. 1 Namely, that music is understood in this part of the world via a peculiarly objectivising colonial ethnography, that it is understood in ways that deny its historical circumstances and that ...
