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Performing al-Andalus, Remembering al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib
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This article examines how the concepts of "al-Andalus" and "Andalusian music" serve as touchstones for cultural identity in contemporary Syria and Morocco. I investigate how the performance of Andalusian music promotes ideologies of communal, national, and transnational identity in these diverse contexts. Attention to the trans-Mediterranean links among performers and consumers of Andalusian music reveals the often contradictory ways that expressive culture orients complex flows of ideologies...
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Performing al-Andalus, Remembering al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib
Journal of American Folklore
; ... cultural patrimony are frequently cited in news reports, cultural events, and (albeit less ... assumed the name (even on official city maps). Some musicians and literary personalities ... syria-online.com/culture/cult_artc/cult_news.html, accessed April 17, 2003. _____. 2000 ...
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Bridging the cultural divide
Jerusalem Post
; BARRY DAVIS Jerusalem Post 09-28-1999 Dr. Avi Eilam Amzallag is a man with a mission - not that you could tell from first impressions. The baby-faced 60-year-old native of Casablanca speaks in the softest of tones as he recounts the tale of the Andalusian Orchestra, an ensemble he established along
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Contribution of Moroccan Jews to cultural heritage
Al Bawaba
; Andre Azoulay, the Moroccan King advisor, chaired on Thursday June 2, in Tetouan, a conference concerning "Moroccan Andalusian music and the contribution of Moroccan Jewish musicians". The conference was initiated by the agency for economic and social promotion and development of Morocco's Northern
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Dionysus Redux: rethinking the teaching of music.
Arts Education Policy Review
; Over the years, I have thought a great deal about music and, more particularly, about the teaching of music. This has often led me far away from the usual thinking about those subjects. I have even, as I do now, put my thoughts to paper, and as all professors are expected to do from time to time, I
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Classical Sephardi conquers the world
Jerusalem Post
; PEGGY CIDOR Jerusalem Post 11-17-2006 Headline: Classical Sephardi conquers the world Byline: PEGGY CIDOR Edition; Billboard Section: Arts Page: 08 Friday, November 17, 2006 -- The Andalusian Orchestra opens its season Sunday at the Jerusalem Theater with a concert dedicated to religious songs
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Suzy's many happy returns
Jerusalem Post
; Barry Davis Jerusalem Post 10-31-2001 Headline: Suzy's many happy returns Byline: Barry Davis Edition; Daily Section: Arts Page: 09 Wednesday, October 31, 2001 -- SUZY Estos Y Munchos (Adama Music) ANDALUSIAN ORCHESTRA Inedit (Magda) There seems to be something of Ladino renaissance in progress at
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DISCS
The Independent on Sunday
; POP Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds JIVE Once you've worked with The Neptunes, the only way, surely, is backwards? Wrong. In terms of cutting-edge but accessible pop production, Timbaland is edging ahead of Pharrel right now, and Justin Timberlake, by teaming up with Tim Mosley and Nate
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Music at Work: Towards a Historical Overview
Folk Music Journal
; ... popular music as standardized with pseudo-individualization, and of listening as involving passivity, distraction and affirmation maps onto the Taylorized factory in which contemporary pop music inhabits an important part of the aural space. First, his characterization ...
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New musicologies, old musicologies: Ethnomusicology and the study of western music
Current Musicology
; Introduction Ethnomusicology currently engages with the study of Western music in two principal ways. On the one hand, there are specific ethnomusicological studies that focus on aspects of Western musical traditions. Examples include Paul Berliner's analysis of improvisation in jazz (1994), Philip
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How critical is music theory?
Critical Arts
; Abstract In this article I address the problem of locating 'music theory' within contemporary critical theories in the social sciences and humanities. I show how two kinds of music theory can be distinguished: music theory as an interpretative and 'critical' set of theories used mainly in music
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