Difference between revisions of "Outline of the history of music in the Arab world"
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− | + | # Pre-Islamic (to 622) | |
** Arab consciousness not yet established | ** Arab consciousness not yet established | ||
* Early Islamic: rise of Great Tradition (to 750) | * Early Islamic: rise of Great Tradition (to 750) | ||
** Multicultural influences: Persian Sasanian, Byzantine, Syrian, Egyptian... | ** Multicultural influences: Persian Sasanian, Byzantine, Syrian, Egyptian... | ||
** Rise of Arab consciousness and expansion of Arab character | ** Rise of Arab consciousness and expansion of Arab character | ||
− | + | # Abbasid and Andalusian "golden age" of Great Tradition (750-900) | |
** Multicultural society | ** Multicultural society | ||
** Increased Persian influence | ** Increased Persian influence |
Revision as of 00:50, 23 January 2008
- Pre-Islamic (to 622)
- Arab consciousness not yet established
- Early Islamic: rise of Great Tradition (to 750)
- Multicultural influences: Persian Sasanian, Byzantine, Syrian, Egyptian...
- Rise of Arab consciousness and expansion of Arab character
- Abbasid and Andalusian "golden age" of Great Tradition (750-900)
- Multicultural society
- Increased Persian influence
- Decline in Arab character
- Increase in Islamicate character
- Fragmentation and decline of Arabic-speaking powers; "decline" (from late 9th c)
- Rise of non-Arabic speaking dynasties
- Berbers
- Turks
- Persians
- Contraction of "Arab"
- Rise of non-Arabic speaking dynasties
- Gradual divergence of regional art music tarab traditions, linked to Great Tradition
- Arabic-speaking world
- North Africa
- Egypt
- Levant
- Iraq
- Arabia
- Turkic world
- Persianate world
- Arabic-speaking world
- Rise of Arab nationalism, recording era, economy of music (1900)
- Reclamation of an "Arab" heritage
- "Old" art music labelled as Arabic "al-turath al-`arabi al-qadim" (old Arab heritage)
- Influence of radio, film, commodification, western music
- New modern music: mediated tarab
- Few media producers/channels, centralized -> rise of pan-Arab music (top-down, Cairo-centered)
- Rise of cassette tape, greater private sector freedom (1970s)
- Explosion of decentralized producers/channels with limited distribution
- decline of pan-Arab music
- Rise of new mass media (satellite TV, mobile phone, Internet) (1990s)