Musical exodus : Al-Andalus and its Jewish diasporas / edited by Ruth F. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Ruth F. (Ruth Frances), editor.

Series:

Europea ; no. 19.

Europea : Ethnomusicologies and modernities ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Spain--Music--To 1500--History and criticism.

Jews.

Spain.

Jews--Music--To 1500--History and criticism.

Jews--Music.

Jews--Music--History and criticism.

Genre:

Music.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 220 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]

Summary:

For nearly eight centuries-from the Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 to the final expulsion of the Jews in 1492-Muslims, Jews, and Christians shared a common Andalusian culture under alternating Muslim and Christian rule. Following their expulsion, Spanish and Arabic-speaking Jews joined preexisting diaspora communities and established new ones across the Mediterranean and beyond. In the twentieth century, radical social and political upheavals in the former Ottoman-and European-occupied territories led to the mass exodus of Jews from the Arab Mediterranean and Turkey, with the majority settling in Israel. Following a trajectory from medieval al-Andalus to present-day Israel via North Africa, Italy, Turkey, and Syria and pausing for perspectives from Enlightenment Europe, Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish DiasporasteWs of diverse song and instrumental traditions born of the multiple musical encounters between Jews and their Muslim and Christian neighbors in different Mediterranean diasporas, as well as the revival and renewal of those traditions in modern Israel. In this collection of essays, distinguished ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, linguists, and performers explore from multidisciplinary perspectives the complex and diverse processes and conditions of inter- and intracultural musical encounters. The authors consider how musical traditions acquired new functions and meanings in different social, politicals and diasporic contexts; explore the historical role of Jewish musicians as cultural intermediaries between the different faith communities; and examine how music is implicated in projects of remembering and forgetting as societies come to terms with mass exodus by reconstructing their narratives of the past. These essays extend beyond the music of medieval Iberia and its Mediterranean Jewish diasporas to wider aspects of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. The authors offer new perspectives on theories of musical interaction, hybridization, and the cultural meaning of musical expression in diasporic and minority communities. The essays address how music is implicated in constructions of ethnicity and nationhood and of myth and history, while also examining the resurgence of al-Andalus as a symbol in musical projects that claim to promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. The diverse scholarship in Musical Exodus makes a vital contribution for scholars of music and European and Jewish history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jews, Muslims, and Christians and the formation of medieval Andalusian music / Dwight F. Reynolds

Judeo-Spanish melodies in the liturgy of Tangier, Morocco : feminine imprints in a masculine space / Vanessa Paloma Elbaz

The place of music in early modern Italian Jewish culture / Daniel Jütte

Fiore d'eterno : music and liturgy of the Jews of San Nicandro Garganico / Piergabriele Mancuso

Enlightenment Andalus : herder's search for Mediterranean modernity in the Jewish past / Philip V. Bohlman

Modal trails, model trials : musical migrants and mystical critics in Turkey / John Morgan O'Connell

Jewish fingers and phantom musical presences : remembrance of Jewish musicians in twentieth-century Aleppo, Syria / Jonathan H. Shannon

Jewish musicians in the musique orientale of Oran, Algeria /Tony Langlois

Tafillalt's "soulmate" the Israeli piyyut revival / Carmel Raz

Islands of musical memory : performing selihot according to the Codex Siftei Renanot in Al-Andalus, Djerba, Tripoli, and Israel from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries / Edwin Seroussi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810881754

0810881756

OCLC:

908375793