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Author Silver, Christopher (Christopher Benno), author.

Title Recording history : Jews, Muslims, and music across twentieth-century North Africa / Christopher Silver.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The birth of the recording industry in North Africa -- The Arab Charleston and the foxtrot -- Nationalist records -- Listening for World War II -- Singing independence -- Curtain call -- Conclusion.
Summary "A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices--of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons--whose music still resonates well into our present"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Popular music -- Africa, North -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
North Africa.
Sound recording industry -- Africa, North -- History -- 20th century.
Sound recording industry.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Jews -- Africa, North -- Music -- History and criticism.
Jews.
Arabs -- Africa, North -- Music -- History and criticism.
Arabs.
Africa, North -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ethnic relations.
Music.
HISTORY / Africa / North.
Arabs -- Music.
Jews -- Music.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Silver, Christopher Recording history Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 9781503630567 (DLC) 2022004427
ISBN 9781503631694 electronic book
1503631699 electronic book
9781503630567 hardcover
9781503631687 paperback