... Book Reviews 502 Playing with Identities come popular among Ghana’s contemporary youth, in Contemporary Music in Africa burgher-highlife and hip-life. These forms of electroni- Mai Palmberg...

...S. Satish Kumar Kumar’s essay explores Indian classical music and the language in which it is conceived, apprehended, and received. He seeks to understand the historical processes that have gone into engineering the changes not just in the form of Indian classical music but also in, perhaps, its...

...Kathryn Woodard © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Music Mediating Politics in Turkey: The Case of Ahmed Adnan Saygun Kathryn Woodard...

...Maureen Jackson Based on a larger project investigating music making as an integral part of Ottoman and Turkish social history, this article seeks to understand surviving musical resonances across ethnoreligious communities in Turkey today. It specifically explores Jewish religious music and its...

...Denise Gill-Gürtan This essay focuses on the multiple definitions and conflicting narrative performances of meşk that coexist in contemporary Turkish practices of music transmission. In Ottoman contexts, meşk referred to the prescribed unfolding of transmission over a long period of time between...

...Andrea Mariko Grant Abstract This article explores Pentecostal sounds and voice in postgenocide Rwanda. It centers on the question of why gospel singers were criticized for crossing over into “secular” music after beginning their careers in the church. Joining scholarship that examines...

...Richard David Williams Abstract In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise...

...-century French attitudes toward Africa and blackness were by no means univocally negative, although they also relied on racial dichotomization. The French avant-garde, and even the general public, celebrated blackness in the fields of art, music, and dance, while anthropologists were engaged in the quest...

... in the court of the second Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam `Ali Khan (r. 1762–1803), and the third Nizam, Sikandar Jah (r. 1803–29), as well as being mistress to their prime ministers of Iranian descent. She was one of the first women poets to compile a full divan of Urdu ghazals and was adept at music and dance...

... and the “Music of dissertation, ing my in these of presented version earlier was An ideas article. this sug- of and writing the comments in helpful gestions their for Roshwald Aviel Mill- James and Stites, ward, Richard Rouland, Natalie thank to like would I Rouland Michael...

... of the documentary in 1971, a producer in Tehran had invited Kurdizadeh to record pop music albums. He declined, citing his commitment to the Prophet's family. 46 He lived the rest of his life as a taxi driver, offering recitations at religious gatherings. Despite Taqvayi's eye for highlighting Kurdizadeh's...

.... In light of this, it is remarkable that the melodies Bhalo sang and performance style he employed throughout his career were drawn not from the Swahili coast but from the other side of the Indian Ocean. Bhalo’s poetry may have been Swahili, but his music...

..., in her article “Crossing claim that Turkey is actually Ottoman; rather, Musical Worlds: Ottoman Jewry, Music Making, they imply collectively that without such lega- and the Rise of the Nation,” studies the social cies...

... . 11. Horowitz, Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic , 1–2, 7 . ‘Ozeri's relationship with Argov is narrated by her in renowned journalist Rino Tzror's book, Black: The Life and Death of Zohar Argov (Yediot Ahronot and Chemed, 2012). 12. Messika's films were often...

... Studies 40 , no. 4 ( 2011 ): 6 – 23 . Beckles Willson Rachel . Orientalism and Musical Mission: Palestine and the West . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Bijsterveld Karin van Dijck José . Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory, and Cultural Practices...

... in Turkey; Kemal Enjoys West- dent Modern: Jazz, Charleston, and Cocaine in 1920s 1992), 6. A systematic study of Istanbul’s cultural his- ern Music,” New York Times, 12 October 1927; “Turkey ­Istanbul.” tory has not been done. However, Edhem Eldem, “Is- Invents Jazz Dance but ‘Stamboul’ Lacks...

... of writing and deliver- and Israeli musicians (aged 18 to 25) for three weeks of ing the citation when Edward was given an honorary master classes and joint performances. This was all in doctorate at the University of Toronto where I teach. I the name of musical—and political—understanding. began my...

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