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  • Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads

    A Sea of Voices

    Edited by Ruth F. Davis, Brian Oberlander ...
    Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively, the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters, bringing the diverse cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Music and the Armenian Diaspora

    Searching for Home in Exile

    by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Among the Jasmine Trees

    Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria

    by Jonathan Holt Shannon ...
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Choreographies of Shared Sacred Sites

    Religion, Politics, and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Elazar Barkan, Karen Barkey ...
    Series Book 22 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    This anthology explores the dynamics of shared religious sites in Turkey, the Balkans, Palestine/Israel, Cyprus, and Algeria, indicating where local and national stakeholders maneuver between competition and cooperation, coexistence and conflict. Contributors probe the notion of coexistence and the logic that underlies centuries of "sharing," exploring when and why sharing gets interrupted—or not ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of World Music

    Edited by Philip V. Bohlman ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Music
    Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but rather that it connected religions, cultures, languages and nations throughout world history. The chapters in this History take readers to foundational historical moments – in Europe, Oceania, China, India, the Muslim world, North and South America – in search of the connections provided by a truly ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Mixing Musics

    Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song

    by Maureen Jackson ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book traces the mixing of musical forms and practices in Istanbul to illuminate multiethnic music-making and its transformations across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on the Jewish religious repertoire known as the Maftirim, which developed in parallel with "secular" Ottoman court music. Through memoirs, personal interviews, and new archival sources, the book explores ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

    by Eleni Kallimopoulou ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of 'paradosiaká' ('traditional'). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and Turkey, and identified by the use of ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Men and Popular Music in Algeria

    The Social Significance of Raï

    by Marc Schade-Poulsen ...
    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Series
    Raï music is often called the voice of the voiceless in Algeria, a society currently swept by tragic conflict. Raï is the voice of Algerian men, young men caught between generations and classes, in political strife, and in economic inequality. In a ground-breaking study, anthropologist Marc Schade-Poulsen uses this popular music genre as a lens through which he views Algerian society, particularly ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Orientalism Revisited

    Art, Land and Voyage

    Edited by Ian Netton ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 marks the inception of orientalism as a discourse. Since then, Orientalism has remained highly polemical and has become a widely employed epistemological tool. Three decades on, this volume sets out to survey, analyse and revisit the state of the Orientalist debate, both past and present.The leitmotiv of this book is its emphasis on an intimate ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Lost Paradise

    Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa

    by Jonathan Glasser ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
    For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the “lost paradise” of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire’s enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Mediterranean Mosaic

    Popular Music and Global Sounds

    Edited by Goffredo Plastino ...
    First published in 2003. The Mediterranean region, which includes Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, along with Italy, Greece, Spain and other European countries, encompasses a plethora of diverse but also interconnected cultures. The musical styles are just as diverse. Mediterranean Mosaic weaves together issues of music contemporary geopolitics and identity struggles. Acknowledging the ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD