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Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Music/Culture)
Jonathan Holt Shannon
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| #445919 in Books | Wesleyan | 2009-11-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.96 x.82 x6.34l,.95 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Culture Wars? Music within National Self-Image|By Dr. Debra Jan Bibel|Jonathan Holt Shannon, author of this book, is an anthropologist whose research uses the performance, forms, and religious, political, and social aspects of music as the focus to examine the roles of traditions or heritage versus and modernity in Syria specifically, and also among Levantine Arabs. The conserv||
“Among the Jasmine Trees is a hauntingly beautiful example of all that is best in contemporary anthropology and ethnomusicology and their mutual nexus with performance studies and the ideas of embodied knowledge.”—Jonathan Zilberg, Jakar
How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in depth by Western scholars. Music plays a key role in the process of self-imagin...
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