Difference between revisions of "Outline of the history of music in the Arab world"
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** Turkic world (Ottomans) | ** Turkic world (Ottomans) | ||
** Persianate world (Safavids, Qajars) | ** Persianate world (Safavids, Qajars) | ||
− | * Rise of "turath" and pan-Arab music (1900+) | + | * '''Rise of "turath" and pan-Arab music (1900+)''' |
** Factors: Arab nationalism, recording era, economy of music | ** Factors: Arab nationalism, recording era, economy of music | ||
** Reclamation of an "Arab" heritage, despite regional diversity | ** Reclamation of an "Arab" heritage, despite regional diversity | ||
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** Explosion of decentralized producers/channels with limited distribution | ** Explosion of decentralized producers/channels with limited distribution | ||
** decline of pan-Arab music | ** decline of pan-Arab music | ||
− | * Rise of new mass media (1990s) | + | * '''Rise of new mass media (1990s)''' |
** Satellite TV, mobile phone, Internet | ** Satellite TV, mobile phone, Internet | ||
** Private ownership | ** Private ownership | ||
** Distributed ownership | ** Distributed ownership | ||
** Return of pan-Arab music, inducing emergent pan-Arabism | ** Return of pan-Arab music, inducing emergent pan-Arabism |
Revision as of 01:00, 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
- Political fragmentation (from late 9th c)
- Decline of Arabic-speaking powers
- Rise of non-Arabic speaking dynasties
- Turks
- Persians
- Berbers
- Circassian Mamlukes
- Destruction of Baghdad (1258)
- Foreign domination of Cairo
- Reconquista (Christian reconquest of Spain, completed 1492)
- Contraction of "Arab"
- Emergence of regional art music traditions (esp. after 13th c)
- Gradual divergence from Great Tradition, and development of regional art music tarab traditions
- Arabic-speaking world
- North Africa (influence of Andalusia)
- Egypt
- Levant
- Iraq
- Arabia
- Turkic world (Ottomans)
- Persianate world (Safavids, Qajars)
- Rise of "turath" and pan-Arab music (1900+)
- Factors: Arab nationalism, recording era, economy of music
- Reclamation of an "Arab" heritage, despite regional diversity
- "Old" art music labelled as Arabic "al-turath al-`arabi al-qadim" (old Arab heritage)
- Influence of radio, film, commodification, western music
- Rise of a new modern music: mediated tarab, via films, radio, later TV
- Few media producers/channels, centralized
- Therefore: appearance of pan-Arab music (top-down, Cairo-centered), inducing ideological pan-Arabism
- Appearance 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 (1990s)
- Satellite TV, mobile phone, Internet
- Private ownership
- Distributed ownership
- Return of pan-Arab music, inducing emergent pan-Arabism