MofA Week 1: What is “music of the Arab world”?
Unity in Music of the Arab world? Consider objective audio-visual data presented in class. What features recur? Try to fill in the following list, before reviewing my own list below.
thought questions:
To what degree do these features gather musics of the Arab world? To what degree do these features exclude musics of other worlds?
Is "music of the Arab world" an objectively coherent category?
Unity of Arab music (my list; don't look until you've thought about the issue yourself!)
