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 (continuing with where Week 1 left off...)
- What is an SC paper? - ex: Touma (critical analysis)
- 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)
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)
