| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 252 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Music/culture
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Music/culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248), discography (page 248), and index. |
| Contents |
Among the jasmine trees -- Sentiment and authentic spirit : composing Syrian modernity -- Constructing musical authenticity : history, cultural memory, emotion -- Body memory, temporality, and transformation in the dhikr -- Authentic performance and the performance of authenticity -- Tarab, sentiment, and authenticity -- Notes toward closure. |
| Summary |
How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in depth by Western scholars. Music plays a key role in the process of self-imaging by virtue of its ability to convey feeling and emotion, and Shannon explores a variety of performance genres, Sufi rituals, song lyrics, melodic modes, and aesthetic criteria. Shannon shows that although the music may evoke the old, the traditional, and the local, these are re-envisioned as signifiers of the modern national profile. A valuable contribution to the study of music and identity and to the ethnomusicology of the modern Middle East, Among the Jasmine Trees details this music and its reception for the first time, offering an original theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Arab culture, music, and society. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- Social aspects -- Syria.
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Music -- Social aspects. |
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Syria. |
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Music -- Syria -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music. |
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Music -- Syria -- History and criticism -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Syria -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1980-2005 |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shannon, Jonathan Holt. Among the jasmine trees. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2006 9780819567987 (DLC) 2005028912 (OCoLC)61864408 |
| ISBN |
9780819569851 (electronic book) |
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0819569852 (electronic book) |
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1282553747 |
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9781282553743 |
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9780819567987 (print) |
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0819567981 (print) |
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0819567981 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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