Tarab
Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance
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About this book
In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ?arab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ?arab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to musical aesthetics and spirituality characteristic of Middle Eastern cultures.
Gathering fifteen essays by scholars of music, affect, literature, religion, and education, ?arab extends the study of ?arab historically, geographically, and sociologically. Historical essays explore ?arab's role in the medieval Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. Turning to the modern era, authors examine ?arab and related concepts in Egypt, Albania, and Iraq, and among Turkish Roma and Lebanese Maronite Christians. The contributors also address contemporary practitioners and the intersections of ?arab and maq?m, belly dancing, music streaming, and university music ensembles. Situating this unique cultural concept in a global context, these studies enrich the story of ?arab and provide new insight into music's powerful emotional appeal.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Contents
- A Note on Transliteration
- List of Illustrations
- An Introduction to Ṭarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance
- 1. Ṭarab in Extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources
- 2. The Other Ṭarab
- 3. Judeo-Sufi Musical Intersections
- 4. A Tale of Two Ṭarabs: Intercultural Music in the Late Ottoman Empire
- 5. Sayyid Darwish and Ṭarab
- 6. From Ṭarab to Turāth: Fifty Years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt
- 7. Ṭarab in the Grooves: Reconsidering a Transitional Moment in the Arab American Arts Economy
- 8. The Two Tenors: The Ṭarab Artistry of Wadih El Safi and Sabah Fakhri
- 9. The Sufi Source of Ṭarab
- 10. From Lament to Prayer: Music and Emotional Shifts in the Funeral Ritual of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon
- 11. Heroism, Desire, Ecstasy: Qamili i Vogël, Kosova Albanian Urban Song, and the Cultivation of Elation
- 12. Sweaty Transcendence and Affect: The Labor of Musical Ecstasy
- 13. Teaching Ṭarab: Embodied Interpersonal Learning in University Ensembles
- 14. Songs of the Ṭarab Repertoire: Sites for Understandings Beyond Affect
- 15. Curating Ṭarab on Music Streaming Services: The Cultural Politics of Localization on Spotify, Anghami, and Deezer
- Contributors
- Index