Typology of Music of the Arab World

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MAW: a typology (relate to course outline divisions)

typologies of MAW are only feasible in the Age of Recording (i.e. ~1904 and thereafter)

  • urban turath (qadim): art or elite music (by region: maghrib, sham, Egypt, Iraq, Arabia). To 1920s. Diverse.
  • post-turath popular tarab (by region) (jadid): western and media influence. 1930s to 1970s. Convergence.
  • mainstream popular media musics (by region, genre): western influence. Convergence and divergence. Exist in and through media to an unprecedented degree; decline of live performance (studio musics).
  • folk/folkloric music (rural, beduin, lower-class urban; by region). Little unity across region.
  • dance music and dance (whether "folk" or "urban")
  • religious music (Islam, churches) - typically the Arabic word "musiqa" is not used
  • alt-Arab: the musical avant-garde, usually creative fusions of Arab and Western.
  • music of non-Arabic communities in Arab world (AS – A)
  • music of border zones (edges of AT)
  • music of diaspora (AW – AT)
  • Arab world music
  • western music (pop, jazz, classical)
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