ethnomusicology – Katya Faris

Beyond the Backlash: Solidarity, Lies, and the Strength of the Arab American Community in Detroit

Posted on October 7, 2025 by katyafaris

Navigating the Firestorm: Polarized Reactions, Political Smears, and the Path Forward by Katya Faris, MA, MA If my last article taught me anything, it’s this: asking people to be moral in a time of genocide… Read more.

From Orientalism to Activism: Belly Dance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Palestinian Struggle

Posted on July 1, 2025 by katyafaris

From Orientalism to Activism: Belly Dance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Palestinian Struggle by Katya Faris, MA, MAwww.katyafaris.com A Dancer’s Awakening: My Journey Through Raqs Sharqi I first fell in love with this dance in 1989,… Read more.

Review-“Ethnomusicology and Music Law” By Anthony Seeger

Posted on November 18, 2018 by katyafaris

Précis: I found this to be one of the most enlightening articles that I have seen on the topic of indigenous music and copyright law. Its practical application to music producers of all music and… Read more.

World Music, Bellydance, and “Selloutism”

Posted on September 24, 2018 by katyafaris

Conceptualizing what World Music or traditional bellydance should be like is a bit like trying to pin down a drop of water with oily fingers: it slides out from underneath, and you can never fully… Read more.

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.

Tag: ethnomusicology

Beyond the Backlash: Solidarity, Lies, and the Strength of the Arab American Community in Detroit

From Orientalism to Activism: Belly Dance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Palestinian Struggle

Review-“Ethnomusicology and Music Law” By Anthony Seeger

World Music, Bellydance, and “Selloutism”

Jazz and the Symbiosis of Text and Context in Improvisational Performance

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