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Jazz and the Symbiosis of Text and Context in Improvisational Performance

Posted on August 8, 2018 by katyafaris

Jazz is in my blood. My mother was a Jazz singer from the South, and I grew up at her rehearsals from birth onward. For the first three years of my life I was on… Read more.

Organology: Daff and Qanun-Women’s Instruments of the Middle East

Posted on April 7, 2018 by katyafaris

As an ethnomusicologist I have seen that women play certain instruments in Arab music; what are they, and why do they do this? In this article we will explore the daf, the frame drum, and… Read more.

The Mawwal-The Sung Poetry of Arab Music

Posted on April 2, 2018 by katyafaris

The links between Arabic literature and music are many, but can particularly be seen in a parallel fashion with the Mawwal, a form of sung poetry. Imagine the camp fires of the Bedouin late at… Read more.

Music and Healing: The Kurdish Music of Ostad Elahi

Posted on March 30, 2018 by katyafaris

Written in 2012 Music and Healing: Ethnomusicologist, Dr. Jean During and the Kurdish Music of Ostad Elahi According to The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (Koen, ed.) the burgeoning field of Medical Ethnomusicology is doing… Read more.

Review: Making Music in the Arab World-The Culture and Artistry of Tarab by Ali Jihad Racy

Posted on March 30, 2018 by katyafaris

Review: written in 2012 Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab. Ali Jihad Racy. 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Middle East Studies, 17. xvi, 248 pp., 10 photographs, glossary,… Read more.

Tag: Music

Jazz and the Symbiosis of Text and Context in Improvisational Performance

Organology: Daff and Qanun-Women’s Instruments of the Middle East

The Mawwal-The Sung Poetry of Arab Music

Music and Healing: The Kurdish Music of Ostad Elahi

Review: Making Music in the Arab World-The Culture and Artistry of Tarab by Ali Jihad Racy

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