The Andalusian music of Morocco : Al-Āla : history, society and text / Carl Davila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davila, Carl, author.

Series:

Literaturen im Kontext ; Bd. 38.

Literaturen im Kontext ; vol. 38

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Music.

Morocco.

Music--Morocco--History and criticism.

Music--Morocco--Andalusian influences.

Music--Andalusian influences.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Reichert Verlag, 2013.

Language Note:

Text contains some Arabic.

System Details:

1.4 m/s

Summary:

Davila redefines the history of this poetic-musical tradition in terms of the oral and literary processes that have preserved it since its beginnings in Islamic Spain, highlighting the social foundations of each. The book proposes a "value theory of tradition" that underscores the values attaching to "mixed orality" in order to explain the coexistence of the two kinds of process within the boundaries of this tradition.

Contents:

Track List for the Accompanying CD

Preface

Acknowledgments

Transliteration System

An Introduction to the Moroccan Andalusian Music Tradition. Opening doors ; An overview of the tradition ; Texts and innovations ; The nūba in history and theory ; The organization of this book

Part 1. A Social History of the Andalusian Music. Prologue. The Standard Historical Narrative of the Andalusian Music. The name al-mūsīqā l-andalusiyya ; The standard narrative ; Historiography and the standard narrative

Beyond Ziryāb and Ibn B̄ājja. Ziryāb: Context, images, sources ; Music and informal institutions in 9th-century Cordoba ; Ibn Bājja: patronage and slave singers in the Almoravid era ; Institutions and innovation in the music of al-Andalus

al-Āla in the Modern Era. 100-1800: "Decadence," "degeneration" and "loss"? ; al-Ḥā'ik: A step toward standardization ; al-Jāmi'ī and the first conservatory ; The modern institutions and their social conditions ; al-Āla as emblem of tradition ; al-Āla in its modern social frame ; al-Āla

A Tradition of Teaching a Tradition. al-Āla Between the Spoken and the Written. Teaching, oral and otherwise ; What's in a name: the Andalusian ṭarab ; aṭ-Ṭarab al-andalusī as aesthetic ethos ; aṭ-Ṭarab al-andalusī in the conservatory ; The national examination ; Mastery: the jawq as teaching institution ; Formal and informal, spoken and written

History and the Oral Tradition. The modern canon ; Kunnāš al-Ḥā'ik ; The al-Jāmi'ī corpus ; Oral processes and the canon of Ǎla texts ; Oral and textual streams as historical evidence

Part 2. Orality and Literacy: A Social Rationale. Toward a Theory of Tradition and Transmission. Tradition, whether oral or written ; The value of tradition ; Tradition, value, and al-Ǎla ; Tradition, change and channels of transmission

Tradition, Both Oral and Written. Channels of transmission: orality and literacy ; Literacy and (partial) orality ; Value in writing and speaking

The Moroccan Andalusian Music as Tradition, Talk and Text. The dependence of al-Ǎla on oral processes ; The oral and the written in Arabic literary history ; Mixed orality, past and present ; Poetry, prestige and the pen in al-Ǎla ; Mixed orality and al-Ǎla

Appendix 1. A Glossary of Arabic Technical Terms

Appendix 2. A Summary of Ṭubǔ' and Their Associations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, glossary, and index.

ISBN:

9783895009136

389500913X

OCLC:

829755215