Author: Francisco Salvador-DanielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Music and Musical Instruments of the Arab, with Introd. on how to Appreciate Arab Music
Author: Francisco Salvador-DanielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935
Author: Susan NancePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807894052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "East--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized performance in America up to the Great Depression. According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants and impersonators, behaved as producers and consumers in a rapidly developing capitalist economy. In admiration of the Arabian Nights, people creatively reenacted Eastern life, but these performances were also demonstrations of Americans' own identities, Nance argues. The story of Aladdin, made suddenly rich by rubbing an old lamp, stood as a particularly apt metaphor for how consumer capitalism might benefit each person. The leisure, abundance, and contentment that many imagined were typical of Eastern life were the same characteristics used to define "the American dream." The recent success of Disney's Aladdin movies suggests that many Americans still welcome an interpretation of the East as a site of incredible riches, romance, and happy endings. This abundantly illustrated account is the first by a historian to explain why and how so many Americans sought out such cultural engagement with the Eastern world long before geopolitical concerns became paramount.
Robert Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938)
Author: Israel J. KatzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Robert Lachmann’s letters to Henry George Farmer provide insightful glimpses into his life and the successive research projects he undertook concerning Arab urban music from North Africa and later Arab and Jewish music traditions in Palestine.
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Musical Standard
Author: The Influence of the Organ in History
Author: Dudley BuckPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Influence of the Organ in History" (Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University) by Dudley Buck. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932)
Author: Israel KatzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) was a pioneering musicologist who specialized in Arab music. In 1932, he participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo, during which he maintained a journal recording his daily activities, interactions with fellow delegates and dignitaries, and varied perambulations throughout the city. This journal, and the detailed minutes he kept for his chaired Commission on History and Manuscripts, were never published. They reveal aspects and inner-workings of the Congress that have hitherto remained unknown. The illustrations and photos contained therein, as well as additional photos that were never seen, provide visual documentation of the Congress’s participants and musical ensembles.
Muwaššaḥ, Zajal, Kharja
Author: Henk HeijkoopPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047413709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about muwaššaḥ and zajal (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the kharja (final segment of muwaššaḥ and some zajals), and about their popularity in East and West.
Author: Luzac &co
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