Difference between revisions of "Music and the Islam factor"
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* Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked | * Fragmentation of Islamic empire in 10th c, corresponding fission in Islamicate forms, which nevertheless remained linked | ||
* Core and periphery model | * Core and periphery model | ||
− | ** Core features: linguistic and tonal (maqam phenomenon) | + | ** Core features: recurrence of organic musical style, linguistic and tonal (maqam phenomenon) |
− | ** Periphery features: timbral (vocal qualities, instrumental resources) | + | ** Periphery features: recurrence of musical traits, mainly timbral (vocal qualities, instrumental resources) |
* Islamic content | * Islamic content | ||
** Rituals | ** Rituals |
Revision as of 12:34, 27 September 2007
Islamic influence upon Islamicate music
- Source: pre-Islamic Arabian features that remained at core of Islamic culture
- Centrality of Arabic language and verbal arts, especially poetry
- Linguistic form: the qasida (monorhyme, monometer)
- Genres of love (nasib), praise (madih), description, satire (hija')
- Courtesan tradition: the qayna
- Expansion: powered by Islamic ideology
- 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
- Accumulation of financial capital
- 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 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)
- Islamic content
- Rituals
- Language-centrality
- Ethical conditions - Sharia: discourse and controversy over music, music terms
- Qur'an
- Sunna (Hadith)
- Mystical currents (Sufism)
- "tazkiyat al-nafs, tarqiyat al-ruh" (taming the self; raising the spirit or soul)
- Batin > Zahir (Haqiqa > Sharia) (flexibility)
- Experiential relation to God
- Absorption of local traditions
- Aesthetic as means to spirituality, expression of spirituality
- Use of music/poetry to express/attain spiritual state (ecstasy, union, annihilation...)