Music in Arabia

Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson, Anne K. Rasmussen , Scheherazade Hassan

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Indiana University Press
07 September 2021

World music; Ethnic studies

Music in Arabia extends and challenges existing narratives of the region's distinctive but understudied music to reveal diverse and dynamic music cultures rooted in centuries-old heritage.

Contributors to Music in Arabia bring a critical eye and ear to the contemporary soundscape, musical life, and expressive culture in the Gulf region. Including work by leading scholars and local authorities, this collection presents fresh perspectives and new research addressing why musical expression is fundamental to the area's diverse, transnational communities. The volume also examines music circulation as a commodity, such as with the production of early recordings, the transnational music industry, the context of the Arab Spring, and the region's popular music markets. As a bonus, readers can access a linked website containing audiovisual examples of the music, dance, and expressive culture introduced throughout the book.

With the work of resident scholars and heritage practitioners in conversation with that of researchers from the United States and Europe, Music in Arabia offers both context and content to clarify how music articulates identity and nation among multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational populations.

Contributions by: Scheherazade Hassan, Ghazi al-Mulaifi
Edited by: Issa Boulos, Virginia Danielson, Anne K. Rasmussen
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780253057549
ISBN 10: 025305754X
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 07 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Preface Note on Transliteration Note on Accompanying Website 1. Introduction, by Virginia Danielson 2. Aspects of the Musical Traditions in the Arabian Peninsula: Distinctive Features, Institutional Preservation, Patrimonial Negotiation, by Scheherazade Hassan 3. The Oil Economy and the Perpetuation of Musical Heritage in Abu Dhabi, by Virginia Danielson 4. (Re)Patriating the Business of Music in Oman: Examples of the Tangible and Intangible in an Omani Arts Economy, by Anne K. Rasmussen 5. Kuwaiti Pearl Diving Music and The Mayouf Mejally Folkloric Ensemble: Beyond an Authorized Heritage Discourse, by Ghazi Al Mulaifi 6. Which Lute was Played in the Sawt of the Gulf before the 20th Century?, by Jean Lambert 7. The Recordings of 'AbdullaIf al-Kuwaiti: 1927-1947, by Ahmad AlSalhi 8. Līwa: A Tale of Adaptation, Survival, and Sustainability, by Aisha Bilkhair 9. The Art of the Tambūra in Qatar: African Identity Reimagined, by Issa Boulos and Yassine Ayari 10. Beyond Aesthetics: Political Diplomacy and Cultural Policy in the Musics of the Sultanate of Oman, by Majid H. al-Harthy 11. Songstresses of Saudi Arabia, by Kay Hardy Campbell 12. Wedding Music: An Ethnography of Male Songs and Dances at Traditional Weddings in the United Arab Emirates, by Khalid Albudoor and Issa Boulos 13. Gender and Genres of Arab Music in the Collection of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936), by Anne van Oostrum 14. The Oman Center for Traditional Music: 1983-2016, by Musallam al-Kathiri and Majid H. al-Harthy 15. Baloch Cultural Circuits in the Context of the Musical Ethnography of the Gulf Region, by George Mürer 16. Reimagining Protest, Reform, and the Public Sphere in Bahraini Hip-Hop and Heavy Metal, by David A. McDonald 17. Afterword, by Ruth M. Stone Glossary Index

"Issa Boulos is Director of the Harper Community Music and Arts Center at Harper College. His compositions are commissioned and performed by nationally acclaimed orchestras and ensembles, and his original scores are featured in documentary films. Virginia Danielson is Associate of the Harvard Music Department and Visiting Scholar at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is author of ""The Voice of Egypt"": Umm Kulthūm, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century and editor (with Dwight Reynolds and Scott Marcus) of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 6: The Middle East. Anne K. Rasmussen is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the College of William & Mary. She is also Director of the William and Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble and past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. She is author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia and editor (with Kip Lornell) of The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity, and Community in the United States and (with David Harnish) of Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia."

Reviews for Music in Arabia: Perspectives on Heritage, Mobility, and Nation

Music in Arabia is a well put together book, offering an intergenerational, multivocal arrangement of short essays that put up many signposts for future research. . . . This anthology breaks new ground in content and form, and the music traditions discussed coexist and co-resist reformatting or the compression needed to fit neatly together. It is an important contribution. -- Amy Horowitz * Journal of Folklore Research * Music in Arabia is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of studies of culture and heritage in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf region. . . . In conjunction with emerging scholarship on culture in and around the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, this valuable work should also open up new avenues of critical scholarship on the Indian Ocean region-a zone of circulation and contact par excellence-akin to recent advances in Mediterranean studies. -- Jonathan H. Shannon * Journal of Anthropological Research *