| Series |
Global music series
Global music series. ^A563337
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| Contents |
The call to prayer: a communal endeavor. The enduring tradition. Giving the call to prayer ; A community of caller ; Responses to the call: an interactive phenomenon -- Change. Mass-mediated broadcasts of the call to prayer -- An uneasy juxtaposition ; The melodic aspect of the call to prayer -- The Eastern Arab melodic modes: the Maqamat. Melodic texture ; Arab melodic theory. The scale system: pitches and intervals -- Maqam Rast in modern Arab music theory. Tetrachords ; Transposition -- Maqam Rast in performance. Intonation ; Accidentals ; Melodic leaps -- Use of multiple upper tetrachords ; A characteristic progression through a Maqam's defining features. CD track 33: a Taqasim by Ali Jihad Racy ; A region for beginning the performance of a Maqam ; A special shape for the Islamic call to prayer -- Modulation -- Madh: a genre of Sufi religious music. The instruments in a Madh ensemble ; A coffeehouse context ; A Sufi Zikr context. Public Zikrs. Movement and changing at Zikr rituals -- A weekly Zikr at the mosque of Sidi 'Ali -- Music in a Madh cycle. Madh Mawwal text ; Instrumental passages ; Features shared among many eastern Arab music traditions -- The Eastern Arab rhythmic modes. Skeletal structures: Maqsum, Masmudi Saghir, and Sa'idi ; Ornamenting the rhythms in performance ; A variety of Takk sounds -- Other rhythms. Wahda and Zaffa ; Malfuf and Sa'udi ; Masmudi ; Sama'i ; Additional region-specific or culture-specific rhythms -- Changes over time -- Upper Egyptian folk music for weddings and festivals: Mizmar ensembles. A Mizmar ensemble at an upper Egyptian wedding. The ensemble ; "Tipping" ; The repertoire. Solo instrumental improvisation ; The songs "Kan 'Andi Ghazal" and "Sama 'ti Yom Rannit Khulkhal" -- Male stick dancing at weddings -- Sa'idi Mizmar at Saint's-day festivals. Male stick dancing at Saint's-day festivals -- Sa'idi Mizmar/Tabl Baladi in government folk-music ensembles ; "Gypsies?" a shared middle eastern tradition ; Sa'idi Mizmar music: unique, yet partaking of a shared musical tradition -- Islam and music: is music Haram?. The highest authorities: the Qur'an and the Hadith. Different contexts/different rulers ; Sufis: developing the "art of listening" -- The Sama' polemic in present-day Cairo. Voices of performers on the accompanying CD ; Other voices in present-day Cairo ; Maintaining a separation between the human and the divine -- Art music of the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth centuries: Takht ensembles. From Takht to Firqa ensembles. The Takht ensemble ; The creation of a new large ensemble: the Firqa ; The Takht repertoire: the Wasla suite form -- Reviving the past ; Creating a Takht recording: CD tracks 9-19 ; The items in tracks 9-19. The improvisatory genres: taqasim, layali, and mawwal ; Layali ; Two mawwals -- The instrumental Dulab and Sama'i genres ; Two precomposed song genres. The Taqtuqu "il-Bahr Nayim" ; A Muwashshah -- The Wasla as a composite sociocultural entity ; The Tarab aesthetic -- Art music of the mid-twentieth century: Umm Kulthum and the long-song tradition. A new superstar emerges. The development of new mass media -- The new Ughniya (long song) genre. Umm Kulthum's new directions ; Umm Kulthum's ensemble ; Other famous Ughniya singers -- Performances videoed and then on television ; Umm Kulthum's last years ; The Umm Kulthum song, "Aruh Li Min," on CD tracks 20-22. The hall, the stage ; The instrumental introduction (Muqaddima) ; Umm Kulthum begins to sing: the vocal refrain. The poetic text -- Maqam Rast -- Zaffa (wedding procession) music. A Zaffa band's performance at a five-star hotel ; The creation of the new Dumyati Zaffa ensemble. The Sharqiyya Mizmar ; Three categories of Zaffa ensemble members ; The unique Sharqiyya Mizmar style of playing Zaffa songs ; Maqam Rast and a variety of rhythms -- Beyond Zaffa performances. A Sharqiyya Mizmar player's life story -- Present-day pop music: Hakim and the Sha'bi and Shababi genres. A wedding performance. A typical performance schedule -- The band ; The Sha'bi and Shababi pop-music genres ; Hakim's rise to fame. The early years ; Muhammad 'Ali street, a historic center for musicians ; Shameful, but not Haram ; Stardom ; "Modern Sha'bi" ; An international vision ; Controversy -- Creating a Sha'bi song. Adding a Sha'bi feel to the three traditional components ; The arranger, a new fourth component -- "Il-Kalam Da Kabir" (CD track 26). Continuity and change. |
| Abstract |
This book provides an overview of the country's rich and dynamic contemporary musical landscape. It offers an in-depth look at specific Egyptian musical traditions, paying special attention to performers and the variety of contexts in which performances occur. The book acknowledges the pervasive presence of Islam by focusing on two Muslim performance genres and by considering the age-old issue of the compatibility of music and Islam. It accomplishes the latter by incorporating the voices of many of the performers featured on the accompanying CD. The volume features a variety of musics that reflect and help to create a number of distinct regional, national, and community identities co-existing in Egypt today. Drawing on more than twenty years of extensive fieldwork, the author offers detailed ethnographic documentation of seven performance traditions found in Egypt today: the call to prayer; madh, a genre of Sufi religious music; southern Egyptian mizmar folk music; early twentieth-century takht -based art music; music by the acclaimed singer Umm Kulthum, which dominated the mid-twentieth century; wedding procession music; and music by the current superstar pop singer Hakim. The book is packaged with an 80-minute audio CD containing excellent examples of each tradition. All of the examples are based in a single melodic mode--maqam rast--to best engage students with the musical form, structure, and practice of the traditions. Separate educational tracks on the CD introduce maqam rast and the variety of rhythms found in the CD examples. In addition, the CD features a special solo improvisation (taqasim) in maqam rast by UCLA professor Ali Jihad Racy, to help students better understand this particular melodic mode. Enhanced by eyewitness accounts of performances, interviews with performers, listening examples, and song lyrics that enable students to interact with the text, this book provides a unique and hands-on introduction to the country's diverse and captivating music. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-9636. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005053942 |
| ISBN | 0195146441 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195146448 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 019514645X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195146455 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
