Difference between revisions of "Music and the Islam factor"

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Islamic influence upon Islamicate music is multidimensional and complex...

Core and periphery model
- Core features: recurrence of organic musical style, linguistic and tonal (maqam phenomenon)
- Periphery features: recurrence of musical traits, mainly timbral (vocal qualities, instrumental resources)

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 [[Islamic expansion and Islamicate music]]
-* Expansion:  powered by Islamic ideology, and weakness of prevailing powers at the time (Sassanian and Byzantine)
-* Inward flow towards center:  assimilation, cultural fusion via openness to learning and multiculturalism (especially Persian arts and sciences)
-** Accumulation of financial capital
-*** Opulent courts (Madina, Damascus, Baghdad, Cordoba, Granada...)
-*** Development of leisure class
-*** Patronage of music and singing
-*** Professional class of musicians
-** Accumulation of intellectual/artistic capital
-*** Bayt al-Hikma
-*** Music theory as philosophy
-*** Development of musical arts
-* Outward flow from center: cultural diffusion, as Islam provides political/cultural/linguistic/religious "lingua franca"
-* Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked
 [[Core and periphery in Islamicate music]]