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The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
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The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa Hardcover - 2016

by Jonathan Glasser


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  • Title The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa
  • Author Jonathan Glasser
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780226327068 / 022632706X
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: North Africa
  • Library of Congress subjects Urban ecology (Sociology), Andalusia (Spain) - Civilization - Islamic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015024745
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.629

About the author

Jonathan Glasser is assistant professor of anthropology at the College of William and Mary.
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New. For more than a century, urban North Africans have sought to protect and revive Andalusi music, a prestigious Arabic-language performance tradition said to originate in the "lost paradise" of medieval Islamic Spain. Yet despite the Andalusi repertoire's enshrinement as the national classical music of postcolonial North Africa, its devotees continue to describe it as being in danger of disappearance. In The Lost Paradise, Jonathan Glasser explores the close connection between the paradox of patrimony and the questions of embodiment, genealogy, secrecy, and social class that have long been central to Andalusi musical practice. Through a historical and ethnographic account of the Andalusi music of Algiers, Tlemcen, and their Algerian and Moroccan borderlands since the end of the nineteenth century, Glasser shows how anxiety about Andalusi music's disappearance has emerged from within the practice itself and come to be central to its ethos. The result is a sophisticated… Read More
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