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Decontextualizing Arabic Music in France and in the United States
Abstract
This paper traces the various steps of the redefinition process implemented by Arab musicians performing in France and in the United States. The assembling of Arabic music groups outside their institutional and national borders reveals new patterns and raises several questions: (1) While most Arabic countries do not share the same institutional music traditions, or the same repertoires (Arab-Andalusian vs. maqamat), how can Arabic musicians from different countries assemble outside their institutional and national borders? (2) How can we understand the heterogeneity of repertoires (scholarly and popular) when the musicians come from different traditions and institutions? Can musicians pursue the legacy—and legitimacy—of classical repertoires or do they necessarily have to embrace Arabic pop culture? Finally, (3) while they were part of the elite in their home countries, how are Arab musicians considered outside their musical institutions, in their new countries such as France and the United States? Have they remained elite musicians in the eyes of their new audiences? Or have they simply become ‘popular’ musicians, regardless of the repertoire they play?
1 Introduction
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Lebanon’s revival of Arab music traditions
Listen carefully inLebanon, and you may grasp the strains of classical Arab music breaking out of the oblivion to which it has been confined for decades.
Atop a mountain switchback leading to the stone-built village of Qornet al-Hamra, the Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (Amar) attracts both musicologists and idle music lovers, who can listen to a collection of 78rpm records on a crank handle gramophone from 1922.
“The aim of the foundation is to safeguard and [spread] classical Arab music, from the beginning of the recording history at the end of the 19th century, to the beginning of the 1930s,” Mounzer el-Hachem, a sound engineer at Amar, tells Al Jazeera, as his eyes follow the sinusoidal wave of the recording of an old 78 he is digitalising.
Hachem estimates that the foundation has around 6,500 records, thousands of hours of reels, and even some wax cylinders, one of the earliest recording mediums. While Amar focuses primarily on classical Arab music from Egypt and Syria, it also collects music from Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and North Africa.
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“Eventually, we are aiming to collect, restore and digitalise all the music from the Nahda, the Arab Renaissance,” he says.
Nahda, which means “resur