Ṭarab : music, ecstasy, emotion, and performance /

"Often described as "ecstasy" or "rapture" brought on by listening to and producing music, tarab is a central concept within Arab music traditions. With A.J. Racy's Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab (Cambridge, 2004) came the first book-l...

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Other Authors: Frishkopf, Michael Aaron (Editor), Marcus, Scott Lloyd, 1952- (Editor), Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction to Ṭarab : Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance / Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds
  • Ṭarab in Extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources / Dwight Reynolds
  • The Other Ṭarab / George Sawa
  • Judeo-Sufi Musical Intersections / Edwin Seroussi
  • A Tale of Two Ṭarabs : Intercultural Music in the Late Ottoman Empire / John O'Connell
  • Sayyid Darwish and Ṭarab / Virginia Danielson
  • From Ṭarab to Turāth : Fifty years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt / Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
  • Ṭarab in the Grooves : Reconsidering a Transitional Moment in the Arab American Arts Economy / Anne Rasmussen
  • The Two Tenors : The Ṭarab Artistry of Waḍī' al-Ṣāfīand Ṣabāḥ Fakhrī/ Sami Asmar
  • The Sufi Source of Ṭarab / Michael Frishkopf
  • From Lament to Prayer : Music and Emotional Shifts in the Funeral Ritual of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon / Guilnard Moufarrej
  • Heroism, Desire, Ecstasy : Qamili i Vogël, Kosova Albanian Urban Song, and the Cultivation of Elation / Jane Sugarman
  • Sweaty Transcendence and Affect : The Labor of Musical Ecstasy / Sonia Seeman
  • Teaching Ṭarab : Embodied Interpersonal Learning in University Ensembles / Anne Elise Thomas
  • Songs of the Ṭarab Repertoire : Sites for Understandings Beyond Affect / Scott Marcus
  • Curating Ṭarab on Music Streaming Services : The Cultural Politics of Localization and Algorithmic Bias on Spotify, Anghami, and Deezer / Darci Sprengel.