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1 online resource (xxxv, 220 pages). |
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Europea: Ethnomusicologies and modernities ; 19
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Europea ; no. 19.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Musical exodus, musical incoming -- Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and the formation of medieval Andalusian music / by Dwight F. Reynolds -- Judeo-Spanish melodies in the liturgy of Tangier, Morocco : feminine imprints in a masculine space / by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz -- The place of music in early modern Italian Jewish culture / by Daniel Jütte -- Fiore d'eterno : music and liturgy of the Jews of San Nicandro Garganico / by Piergabriele Mancuso -- Enlightenment Andalus herder's search for Mediterranean modernity in the Jewish past / by Philip V. Bohlman -- Modal trails, model trials : musical migrants and mystical critics in Turkey / by John Morgan O'Connell -- Jewish fingers and phantom musical presences : remembrance of Jewish musicians in 20th c. Aleppo, Syria / by Jonathan H. Shannon -- Jewish musicians in the musique orientale of Oran, Algeria / by Tony Langlois -- Tafillalt's soulmate : a snapshot on the Israeli piyyut revival / by Carmel Raz -- Islands of musical memory : performing selihot according to the Codex Siftei Renanot in Al-Andalus, Djerba, Tripoli, and Israel from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries / by Edwin Seroussi. |
| Summary |
For nearly eight centuries - from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492 - Muslims, Jews and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, the Spanish and Arabic- speaking Jews joined pre-existing diasporic communities and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals in the former Ottoman and European-occupied territories led to the mass exodus of Jews from Turkey and the Arab Mediterranean, with the majority settling in Israel. Following a trajectory from medieval Al-Andalus to present-day Israel via North Africa, Italy, Turkey and Syria, pausing for perspectives from Enlightenment Europe, Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas tells of diverse song and instrumental traditions born of the multiple musical encounters between Jews and their Muslim and Christian neighbors in different Mediterranean diasporas, and the revival and renewal of those traditions in present-day Israel. In this collection of essays from Philip V. Bohlman, Daniel Jtte, Tony Langlois, Piergabriele Mancuso, John O'Connell, Vanessa Paloma, Carmel Raz, Dwight Reynolds, Edwin Seroussi, and Jonathan Shannon, with opening and closing contributions by Ruth F. Davis and Stephen Blum, distinguished ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, linguists and performers explore from multidisciplinary perspectives the complex and diverse processes and conditions of intercultural and intracultural musical encounters. The authors consider how musical traditions acquired new functions and meanings in different social, political and diasporic contexts; explore the historical role of Jewish musicians as cultural intermediaries between the different faith communities; and examine how music is implicated in projects of remembering and forgetting as societies come to terms with mass exodus by reconstructing their narratives of the past. The essays in Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas extend beyond the music of medieval Iberia and its Mediterranean Jewish diasporas to wider aspects of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. The authors offer new perspectives on theories of musical interaction, hybridization, and the cultural meaning of musical expression in diasporic and minority communities. The essays address how music is implicated in constructions of ethnicity and nationhood and of myth and history, while also examining the resurgence of Al-Andalus as a symbol in musical projects that claim to promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. The diverse scholarship in Musical Exodus makes a vital contribution to scholars of music and European and Jewish history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Spain -- Music -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Jews. |
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Spain. |
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Jews -- Music -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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Jews -- Music. |
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Jews -- Music -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical. |
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MUSIC -- Reference. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Ruth F. (Ruth Frances)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Musical exodus Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 9780810881754 (DLC) 2015016694 |
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9780810881761 ebook |
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0810881764 |
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9780810881754 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0810881756 |
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