Research Catalog

Title

Music in Arabia : perspectives on heritage, mobility, and nation / edited by Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson, and Anne K. Rasmussen.

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boulos, Issa, 1968-
• Danielson, Virginia
• Rasmussen, Anne K.

Description

xi, 309 pages : illustrations, map, music; 24 cm

Summary

With the work of resident heritage practitioners set alongside that of Western researchers, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.

Subject

• Music > Arabian Peninsula
• Music > Social aspects > Arabian Peninsula
• Music > Arabian Peninsula > History
• Music
• Music > Social aspects
• Arabian Peninsula

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Virginia Danielson -- Aspects of the musical traditions in the Arabian Peninsula : distinctive features, institutional preservation, patrimonial negotiation / Scheherazade Hassan -- The oil economy and the perpetuation of musical heritage in Abu Dhabi / Virginia Danielson -- (Re)patriating the business of music in Oman : examples of the tangible and intangible in an Omani arts economy / Anne K. Rasmussen -- Kuwaiti pearl-diving music and the Mayouf Mejally Folkloric Ensemble : beyond an authorized heritage discourse / Ghazi Faisal al-Mulaifi -- Which lute was played in the ṣawt of the Gulf before the twentieth century? / Jean Lambert -- The recordings of ʻAbdullatif-al-Kuwaiti : 1927-1947 / Ahmad AlSalhi -- Līwa : a tale of adaptation, survival, and sustainability / Aisha Bilkhair -- The art of the tambūra in Qatar : African identity reimagined / Issa Boulos and Yassine Ayari -- Beyond aesthetics : political diplomacy and cultural policy in the musics of the Sultanate of Oman / Majid H. al-Harthy -- Songstresses of Saudi Arabia / Kay Hardy Campbell -- Wedding music : an ethnography of male songs and dances at traditional weddings in the United Arab Emirates / Khalid Albudoor ; translated by Issa Boulos -- Gender and genres of Arab music in the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) / Anne van Oostrum -- The Oman Center for Traditional Music : 1983-2016 / Musallam al-Kathiri ; translated by Majid H. al-Harthy -- Baloch cultural circuits in the context of the musical ethnography of the Gulf Region / George Mürer -- Reimagining protest, reform, and the public sphere in Bahraini hip-hop and heavy metal / David A. McDonald -- Afterword / Ruth M. Stone.

Call Number

JME 21-465

ISBN

• 0253057531
• 9780253057532
• 025305754X
• 9780253057549

OCLC

1189752532

Title

Music in Arabia : perspectives on heritage, mobility, and nation / edited by Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson, and Anne K. Rasmussen.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Boulos, Issa, 1968- editor.

Danielson, Virginia, editor.

Rasmussen, Anne K., editor.

Research Call Number

JME 21-465