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Revision as of 14:09, 5 January 2008
WINTER 2008
Music 468 / 568: Ethnomusicology of the Arab World (RN2 109A W 9:00-11:50) (Michael Frishkopf)
This course will survey music culture in the Arabic-speaking world, from the 7th century to the present. Historical and music theoretical approaches will be adopted, but the course will focus on musics of the present day in its socio-cultural context. The course will develop a critical stance towards Arab music, by contextualizing music designated as such within Arab nationalism from the 19th century onwards. We will examine localized musical dialects--urban and rural--characterizing societies and cultures from Morocco to the Gulf, as well as broader mediated forms, and music media, from phonodiscs to videoclips. The relations between music and language, and between music and Islam, will also be discussed. The concept of "Arab world" will be problematized and extended to the diasporic community.
This course uses Moodle for course management. If you are enrolled in the course, you should create a Moodle account on the English and Film Studies Moodle, then enroll in this course on Moodle (under "Miscellaneous"). The required password will be announced in class.
Arab Music Bibliography (course materials only; not a complete list!)
Arab Music Discography and Filmography (all works available in our library! Not guaranteed complete, but close.)
