MofA Week 2: The history of Arab music & the construction of “Arab music” ("al-musiqa al-`arabiyya")
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 discussed this week
- emic/etic distinction
- ethnocentrism
- Orientalism
- Hornbostel-Sachs system for classifying musical instruments
- 'Microtones', 'quartertones', equal temperament
- 'Arab'
Sources
Islamicate timelines and periods
The history of Islamicate music (as presented by Touma)
Critique of "Arab music" history (as presented by Touma and others)
