The Ma'luf in Contemporary Libya : An Arab Andalusian Musical Tradition
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
SOAS Studies in Music
ISBN-10
1409444724
ISBN-13
9781409444725
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 20th, 2012
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
542 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 23.50 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"
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Ma'luf, which literally means 'familiar' or 'customary,' bears the auditory traces of music brought to North Africa by Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. This book investigates the place of this orally-transmitted music tradition in contemporary Libyan life and culture.
The musical tradition of Ma''luf is believed to have come to North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Although this Arab Andalusian music tradition has been studied in other parts of the region, until now, the Libyan version has not received Western scholarly attention. This book investigates the place of this orally-transmitted music tradition in contemporary Libyan life and culture. It investigates the people that make it and the institutions that nurture it as much as the tradition itself. Patronage, music making, discourse both about life and music, history, and ideology all unite in a music tradition which looks innocent from the outside but appears quite intriguing and intricate the more one explores it.
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