title: Ma'luf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian Music of Tunisia
author: Ruth F. Davis
description: This volume serves as a good example of how one can apply reflective methods to ethnomusicology. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (<i>CHOICE</i>)<br /><br />'A delight to read ... the clarity of Davis's writing opens doors for many. The confluence of historical sources and the author's sensitive ethnographic study of contemporary practices enriches the texture of the music itself. <i>Ma'luf</i> provides a non-European perspective on nationalism that has long been wanting in studies of modernity. The book fully deserves to become a standard text in the study of music in the Middle East/North Africa.' (Philip V. Bohlman, Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago)<br /><br />'This is an important work that provides a critical, clear and concise analysis of the impact of Tunisian cultural nationalism on, and through, the medium of music.' (Richard C. Jankowsky <i>Ethnomusicology Forum</i>)<br /><br />The musical form, like related Arab musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, and Libya, is alleged to have been brought to North Africa by Muslims and Jews fleeing the Christian reconquest of Spain from the 10th to the 17th centuries. Davis (ethnomusicology, U. of Cambridge) examines the music in such terms as Arab musical aesthetics; modernization, Westernization, and Egyptianization; the use of notation in oral tradition; musical nationalism and cultural policy; concepts of art and popular; and relations between traditional music and the mass media. (<i>Reference and Research Book News</i>)
zlib_text: Moroccan Andalusian Music 
  Author(s): Philip D Schuyler 
  Source: The World of Music , 1978, Vol. 20, No. 1, the arab world (1978), pp. 33-46
   
  Published by: VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung 
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43562538
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