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The Mediterranean in Music

Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences

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The Mediterranean in Music

Critical Perspectives, Common Concerns, Cultural Differences

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Politically and historically, the Mediterranean has been a space for critical dialogue for competing and often antagonistic voices, and still functions as meeting place for diverse and interdisciplinary approaches. Although other academic disciplines have attempted a unified approach to Mediterranean studies, until recently Mediterranean music as a singular concept has received relatively little scholarly development. This volume is a crucial first step and investigates several musical cultures that have traditionally demonstrated common threads, trends, and interactions. The music of Greece, Crete, Turkey, Albania, Corsica, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Palestine are all considered in this volume as the scholars represented here reveal the musical commonality among otherwise divergent traditions.

Unnecessary technical jargon is avoided, and an interdisciplinary approach embracing ethnology and material culture considerations makes this volume relevant not only to musicologists and anthropologists, but likewise to the general reader interested in tourism.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Series Foreword
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Part 1 Nation and History
Chapter 5 1 Sound Sense: Mediterranean Music from a Turkish Perspective
Chapter 6 2 A Family of Song: Reflections of Albanian Urban Lyric
Chapter 7 3 "Humanizing the Masses": Enlightened Intellectuals and the Music of the People
Part 8 Part 2 Broadcasting and New Media
Chapter 9 4 Robert Lachmann's Oriental Music: A Broadcasting Initiative in 1930s Palestine
Chapter 10 5 Outside-In: Music, New Media and Tradition in North Africa
Part 11 Part 3 Men and Women
Chapter 12 6 Performance on a Mediterranean Theme: Musicians and Masculinity in Crete
Chapter 13 7 Anda Jaleo! Celebrating Creativity in Flamenco Song
Part 14 Part 4 "Mediterranean Music"
Chapter 15 8 Anchors and Sails: Music and Culture Contact in Corsica
Chapter 16 9 Open Textures: On Mediterranean Music
Part 17 Part 5 The Traveling Mediterranean
Chapter 18 10 Algerian Raï into Beur Raï: The Music of Return
Chapter 19 11 On Imagining the Mediterranean
Part 20 Index
Part 21 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Mar 22 2005
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9780810854079
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

David Cooper

Anthology Editor

Kevin Dawe

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