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* Contact with Assimilated Cultures
 
* Contact with Assimilated Cultures
(especially musical traditions of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia)
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(especially musical traditions of Persia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium)
 
* Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece)
 
* Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece)
 
* Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
 
* Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)

Revision as of 12:25, 27 September 2007

Six factors shaping Arab Islamicate music through history: (after Dr. Jihad Racy)

  • Contact with Assimilated Cultures

(especially musical traditions of Persia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium)

  • Contact with the Classical Past (ancient Greece)
  • Contact with the Medieval West (crusades, Andalusia)
  • Rule of Ottoman Turks (1517-1917)
  • Contact with the Modern West (1798 - present)
  • Influence of Mass media
    • Recording
    • Film
    • Radio
    • TV