Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas

Author:   Ruth F. Davis
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Volume:   19
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9780810881754


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ruth F. Davis
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Volume:   19
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780810881754


ISBN 10:   0810881756
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Musical Exodus, Musical Incoming Chapter 1: Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and the Formation of Medieval Andalusian Music by Dwight F. Reynolds Chapter 2: Judeo-Spanish melodies in the liturgy of Tangier, Morocco: Feminine Imprints in a Masculine Space by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Chapter 3: The Place of Music in Early Modern Italian Jewish Culture by Daniel Jütte Chapter 4: Fiore d’eterno: Music and Liturgy of the Jews of San Nicandro Garganico by Piergabriele Mancuso Chapter 5: Enlightenment Andalus—Herder’s Search for Mediterranean Modernity in the Jewish Past by Philip V. Bohlman Chapter 6: Modal Trails, Model Trials: Musical Migrants and Mystical Critics in Turkey by John Morgan O’Connell Chapter 7: Jewish Fingers and Phantom Musical Presences: Remembrance of Jewish Musicians in 20th C. Aleppo, Syria by Jonathan H. Shannon Chapter 8: Jewish Musicians in the “Musique Orientale” of Oran, Algeria by Tony Langlois Chapter 9: Tafillalt’s “Soulmate”: A Snapshot on the Israeli Piyyut Revival by Carmel Raz Chapter 10: 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 by Edwin Seroussi Afterword by Stephen Blum Appendix Index About the Contributors

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The book's expansive timeframe, dispersed geographies, and widely varied musical traditions paint a composite portrait-by way of case study-of a vibrant and multi-layered area of Jewish music, history, and culture. Thinking On Music


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"Ruth F. Davis is University Reader in Ethnomusicology and Fellow and Director of Studies in Music at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on the music of North Africa, the Middle East and the wider Mediterranean, especially on her fieldwork in mainland Tunisia and in the Jewish community of Djerba, and on Robert Lachmann's archive projects in Mandatory Palestine. Her edition of Lachmann's ""Oriental Music"" broadcasts was published by A-R Editions in 2013, with accompanying CD set of digitally restored recordings."

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