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* Umm Kulthum in ''Dananeer''. Songs from the film: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQvcEBO0Ew][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H72D7QjPvd0][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGuNoqLqHcM&feature=related][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT6gFzB0m2g&feature=related]
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* [http://digital.films.com.login.ezproxy.library.ualberta.ca/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=11416&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=An%20Art%20of%20Living:%20Arab%20Aesthetics%20in%209th-Century%20Spain&IsSearch=N&parentSeriesID= An Art of Living] (on Ziryab in Cordoba)

Revision as of 11:39, 14 September 2010

To do this week

  • Review course outline, books, requirements
  • What is an SC paper? - ex: Touma
  • Continue week 1 materials...."What is ethnomusicology of the Arab world?" (what is the Arab world? who is an Arab? what is Arab music?...)
  • Some empirical investigations (audio and video recordings)
  • Some history...
  • Film: Dananeer
  • Practicum - Rast, maqamworld.com

Some concepts we've introduced

  • emic/etic distinction
  • ethnocentrism
  • Orientalism
  • Hornbostel-Sachs system for classifying musical instruments
  • 'Microtones', 'quartertones', equal temperament
  • 'Arab'

History

Islamicate timelines and periods

The history of Islamicate music (as presented by Touma)

Critique

Critique of "Arab music" history (as presented by Touma and others)

Racy on tarab

Typology

Typology of Music of the Arab World

Films