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Revision as of 17:57, 20 September 2010
What do you think? What is "music of the Arab world"? How can it be defined?
Please record your thoughts, notes, and queries below.... (just hit the "edit" tab, add your text, and then click "save page" below)
here it goes...
Arab music is music that from an etic or emic perspective is considered to belong to or be associated with those that are identified as or self identify as Arab.
So, if you think its Arab music, its Arab music.
I feel like this doesn't really help narrowing it down at all but the concept of Arabic music seems to subjective to a have a neat definition.
Maybe something should be added about distinctive sound qualities, language too. It would be hard to consider a song with a western pop style, sung in english by someone who considers themself to be Arabic, to be Arabic music. At this point it becomes something else I think.
Justina
