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Andalusian Music
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Arab Music Theory
Arabic Music
Armenian Music
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Double Clarinet
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Egyptian Music
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Folk Music
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Frame Drums
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Iranian Dance Traditions
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Melodic Modes
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Middle Eastern Music
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music anthropology
oral tradition transmission
performer life histories in Middle Eastern music
Persian Music
Popular Music
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Product details
- ISBN 9780824060428
- Weight: 2400g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of typical musicmakers and their art, as well as first-person descriptions of specific music performances and events. Also includes maps and music examples.
Virginia Danielson is Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Librarian at Harvard University and author of The Voice of Egypt: UmmKulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in theTwentieth Century (1997). Scott Marcus is Associate Professor of Music at the UC Santa Barbara. DwightReynolds is Professor of Religion at UC Santa Barbara and author of Heroic Poets, Heroic Heroes: The Ethnography ofPerformance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995).
