Performing Al-Andalus - Music and Nostalgia Across the Mediterranean

Jonathan Holt Shannon is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. He is author of Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria and A Wintry Day in Damascus: Syrian Stories.

List of contents

Prelude
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Overture Performance, Nostalgia, and the Rhetoric of al-Andalus: Mediterranean Soundings
1. In the Shadows of Ziryab: Narratives of al-Andalus and Andalusian Music
2. The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Modern Syria, or, There and Back Again
3. The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Morocco: Genealogical Imagination and Authenticity
4. The Rhetoric of al-Andalus in Spain: Nostalgic Dwelling among the Children of Ziryab
Finalis The Project of al-Andalus and Nostalgic Dwelling in the 21st Century
Glossary
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Jonathan Holt Shannon is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. He is author of Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria and A Wintry Day in Damascus: Syrian Stories.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Holt Shannon, Shannon Jonathan Holt
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9780253017567
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01756-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology