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The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethn
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- ISBN
- 9780226327068
- Subject Area
- Music, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Lost Paradise : Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Subject
- History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Africa / North, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The urban centers of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia are home to performance traditions whose practitioners trace them to al-Andalus, or medieval Muslim Spain. According to its devotees, the repertoire was passed down over the centuries from master to disciple. Today it is ubiquitous in the Maghreb and its diaspora, and is held up as a quasi-official classical music that expresses an abiding link to a prestigious precolonial past. Despite its deep roots, Andalusi music has also profoundly changed in the past one hundred years, and it is now considered a threatened art. In The Lost Paradise , Jonathan Glasser accounts for the longevity of Andalusi music's revivalist project through ethnographic and archival research carried out in Algeria, Morocco, and France. He treats Andalusi music as a circulatory practice that privileges the transmission of embodied knowledge from master to disciple. The genealogical model embeds Andalusi music in social relations, closely linking it to the cultivation of old urban identities that reach across North Africa and into al-Andalus. At the same time, it is precisely the genealogical model that makes the repertoire so elusive as a social practice, giving rise to both the longstanding claim that some masters withhold valuable songs and the efforts to counteract alleged hoarding via the printed word. By looking to the performative, textual, institutional, and emotive practices surrounding Andalusi music, Glasser evokes a tradition animated by subtle tensions between secrecy and publicness, keeping and giving, embodiment and detachment.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022632706x
ISBN-13
9780226327068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038296315
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Lost Paradise : Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History & Criticism, Ethnomusicology, Africa / North, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic
Publication Year
2016
Series
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Music, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2015-024745
Lc Classification Number
Ml350.G63 2016
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Based on more than a decade of research, The Lost Paradise offers a meticulous and accomplished portrayal of the Andalusian music milieu in Algiers, Tlemcen and their Moroccan borderlands and a cultural history of a century-long project of musical revival. Glasser's work provides a tremendously rich and deeply learned ethnography of the microhistories of one particular Andalusian musical tradition., Through sophisticated ethnography and painstaking multilingual archival research, Glasser shapes a compelling narrative about a notion of the lost. . . . In this book the lost becomes a complex notion which comes alive through an incisive analysis and the skilful interweaving of practitioners' and melomanes' (aficionados') words, sound recordings, printed compilations of song texts, photographs, transcriptions, and amateur associations. This is how Glasser invites his readers into an archipelago of sound, where debates and anxieties about loss and revival are embedded in the intertwining of the past, the present, and the future, giving continuity and vitality to Andalusi music. The Lost Paradise is an essential reference for researchers of the musical traditions of North Africa and the Middle East, and a crucial work for scholars of North Africa and beyond., Like the music that is its subject, Glasser's book is beautiful, subtle, and deeply learned--carefully composed, deftly handled, and sensitive. A compelling account of Andalusi music and its milieu both as they exist today and as they have developed since the nineteenth century, this is a theoretically articulate and highly sophisticated ethnography and an absorbing and engaging read, lucidly and elegantly written, with passages of real beauty. This is an insightful cultural history that offers a major contribution to the literature., Through sophisticated ethnography and painstaking multilingual archival research, Glasser shapes a compelling narrative about a notion of the lost. . . n this book the lost becomes a complex notion which comes alive through an incisive analysis and the skilful interweaving of practitioners' and melomanes' (aficionados') words, sound recordings, printed compilations of song texts, photographs, transcriptions, and amateur associations. This is how Glasser invites his readers into an archipelago of sound, where debates and anxieties about loss and revival are embedded in the intertwining of the past, the present, and the future, giving continuity and vitality to Andalusi music. The lost paradise is an essential reference for researchers of the musical traditions of North Africa and the Middle East, and a crucial work for scholars of North Africa and beyond., A much-needed study of the North African Andalusi musical tradition that compellingly shows how the familiar tropes of cultural loss and revival have been constituted and experienced through the lens of its musicians and social actors. It will be a crucial resource for scholars of North African and Middle Eastern artistic traditions and should become the essential reference work on Andalusi music in English-language scholarship., Jonathan Glasser's The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa is a landmark study of the history and contemporary practice of musicians and music lovers in the Moroccan-Algerian border area. In addition to shedding light on a little understood component of the broader network (what Glasser terms an archipelago) of Andalusi associations and performance practices, this important book explores the relationship of cultural heritage to place, narratives of origin and decline, the ways music can enliven debates about the dynamics of communal memory and belonging, and the anxieties of modernity. . . . Glasser strikes such a fine balance between his archival and field research that he creates the feeling of conversing with characters long gone (the early 20th century musician Edmond Yafil, for example) while at the same time understanding contemporary performers as embedded in a centuries- long genealogy of performance, communal memory, storytelling and place-making., Jonathan Glasser's book, simultaneously erudite and accessible, brings a significant and welcome contribution to this growing field of research. J. Glasser describes a collection of historical and cultural references from the Algerian Andalusian musical tradition and, with great talent, shows that it is pervaded by themes of loss, revival, and preservation, and which in turn have contributed to the development of Algerian classical music.
Table of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Part I The People of al-Andalus Prologue: An istikhbar 1 An Andalusi Archipelago 2 The Shaykh and the Mulu' 3 Andalusi Music as Genre Part II Revival Prologue: A Photograph 4 Ambiguous Revivals 5 Texts, Authority, and Possession 6 The Associative Movement 7 The Politics of Patrimony Conclusion: The Lost Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
781.62/927061
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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