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Revision as of 09:04, 9 September 2014
To do
- Arab musical warm up! Melody and rhythm with nay and riqq accompaniment. (We'll try to do this daily - feel free to bring instruments!)
- concept of maqam and darb
- Hornbostel-Sachs system for classifying musical instruments
- Notes:
- Please don't sign out all the reserve readings at once!
- You don't need to complete readings by Tuesday
- Beware of Firefox.
- Adjust jstor links when off campus
Some concepts...critiques
- concept of frequency ratios and musical intervals (e.g. an octave is 2:1)
- 'Microtones', 'quartertones' (see www.maqamworld.com), equal temperament, frequency ratios
- oral continuity vs written continuity; secondary orality & notation and mnemonic
- ethnomusicology (anthropology of music), comparative musicology (e.g. comparative music theory), non-western music history (e.g. Farmer and Sawa on Arab music history)
- emic (insider perspective) vs etic ("objective" perspective) distinction (e.g.: "what is music?")
- ethnocentrism
- Orientalism
- critique:
- 'Arab' (people, music): who's an Arab? What counts as their music?
- 'Music' (What counts as music? etic vs. emic definitions)
- Continue critical introduction: "What is ethnomusicology of the Arab world?" (what is the Arab world? who is an Arab? what is Arab music?...)
- The history of the word "Arab" from earliest times to present
- Concepts and nationalisms, e.g. "Arab music" (vs. "Middle Eastern music", "Egyptian music", "Islamic music", etc.)
- Critique
- Definitions?
- Your turn: empirical investigations regarding "Arab music" (audio and video recordings)
History of Arab music
- Role of Arab nationalism (since 19th c) in formulating "Arab music" as "al-musiqa al-arabiyya"
- Historical overview...
- Islamicate timelines and periods
- The history of Islamicate music (as presented by Touma)
- Critique of "Arab music" history
- Outline of the history of music in the Arab world (as presented by me)
- What is an SC paper? - ex: Touma (critical reading & analysis, together...)
- Film: the celebrated pan-Arab singer Umm Kulthum plays the role of the famous Abbasid-era qayna, Dananeer, in the film Dananeer (1940).
Three ways of reading this film
- as an (explicit) representation of 9th c Abbasid culture
- as an (implicit) representation of Egyptian perceptions of "Arab history" in 1940
- as an (implicit) representation of Egyptian film music in 1940
Typology
Typology of Music of the Arab World
Films
- Umm Kulthum in Dananeer. Songs from the film: [1][2][3][4]
- An Art of Living (on Ziryab in Cordoba)
