The Lost Paradise : Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa / Jonathan Glasser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glasser, Jonathan, Author.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Algeria--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Morocco--History and criticism.

Arabs--Algeria--Music--History and criticism.

Arabs.

Arabs--Morocco--Music--History and criticism.

Music--Africa, North--Spanish influences.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Ethnomusicology--Africa, North.

Ethnomusicology.

Andalusia (Spain)--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Andalusia (Spain).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire's enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of disappearance. In The Lost Paradise, Jonathan Glasser explores the close connection between the paradox of patrimony and the questions of embodiment, genealogy, secrecy, and social class that have long been central to Andalusi musical practice. Through a historical and ethnographic account of the Andalusi music of Algiers, Tlemcen, and their Algerian and Moroccan borderlands since the end of the nineteenth century, Glasser shows how anxiety about Andalusi music's disappearance has emerged from within the practice itself and come to be central to its ethos. The result is a sophisticated examination of musical survival and transformation that is also a meditation on temporality, labor, colonialism and nationalism, and the relationship of the living to the dead.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part One. The People of al- Andalus

Part Two. Revival

Conclusion: Th e Lost

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226327372

022632737X

OCLC:

945663127