Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Shannon, Jonathan Holt.

Title Performing al-Andalus : music and nostalgia across the Mediterranean / Jonathan Holt Shannon.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
©2015

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Contents A Note on Transliteration -- Overture: Performance, Nostalgia, and the Rhetoric of al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings -- 1. In the Shadows of Ziryab: Narratives of al-Andalus and Andalusian Music -- 2. The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Modern Syria, or, There and Back Again -- 3. The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Morocco: Genealogical Imagination and Authenticity -- 4 .The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Spain: Nostalgic Dwelling among the Children of Ziryab -- Finalis: The Project of al-Andalus and Nostalgic Dwelling in the Twenty-First Century -- Glossary.
Summary Performing al-Andalus explores three musical cultures that claim a connection to the music of medieval Iberia, the Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus, known for its complex mix of Arab, North African, Christian, and Jewish influences. Jonathan Holt Shannon shows that the idea of a shared Andalusian heritage animates performers and aficionados in modern-day Syria, Morocco, and Spain, but with varying and sometimes contradictory meanings in different social and political contexts. As he traces the movements of musicians, songs, histories, and memories circulating around the Mediterranean, he argues that attention to such flows offers new insights into the complexities of culture and the nuances of selfhood.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Music -- Spain -- Andalusia -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism.
Music.
Spain -- Andalusia.
Chronological Term 500-1400
Subject Music -- Spain -- Andalusia -- 15th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 15th century
Subject Music -- Syria -- Andalusian influences.
Syria.
Music -- Morocco -- Andalusian influences.
Morocco.
Music -- Spain -- Andalusian influences.
Spain.
Music -- Mediterranean Region -- History and criticism.
Mediterranean Region.
Chronological Term 500-1499
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Other Form: Print version: Shannon, Jonathan Holt. Performing al-Andalus. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] 9780253017567 (DLC) 2015005816 (OCoLC)907146618
ISBN 0253017742 (electronic book)
9780253017741 (electronic book)
9780253017567 (cl ; alkaline paper)
0253017564 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780253017628 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0253017629 (paperback alkaline paper)