[Andalusi Studies] Muwashshah in modern music

[Dwight Reynolds]

Yes, David, great question!

In addition to the citations already mentioned, if you mean the  
muwashshah in its present performance traditions, then there is a  
sizeable bibliography dealing with various regional traditions by  
authors including

    Jonathan Shannon (already cited, Syria and Morocco)
    Jonathan Glasser (Oujda, Morocco)
    Carl Davila (Morocco)
    Mark Wagner (Yemen)
    Jean Lambert (Yemen)
    Ruth Davis (Tunisia)
    Philip Ciantar (Libya)
    Edwin Seroussi (Morocco and elsewhere, including Jewish traditions)
    L. Jafran Jones (Tunisia)
    myself and others.

Do have particular aspects/issues you are interested in?

If you mean modern performances of "medieval" muwashshahat, you might  
look at my article

    ?The Re-creation of Medieval Arabo-Andalusian Music in Modern  
Performance.?  Al-Mas?q: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean Vol. 21,  
No. 2 (August 2009): 175-189.


Best,
Dwight


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Quoting Alexander e Elinson <aelinson at hunter.cuny.edu>:

> Dear All,
>
> In addition to Jean's suggestions, may I add Jonathan Shannon's  
> "Performing al-Andalus, Remembering al-Andalus: Mediterranean  
> Soundings from Mashriq to Maghrib" Journal of American Folklore 120  
> (477): 308-334. He also discusses the muwashshah in his book, Among  
> the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria.  
> Wesleyan UP, 2009. I don't remember if he treats the muwashshah in  
> particular, but you might look at Dwight Reynolds' "Musical  
> 'Membrances of Medieval Muslim Spain" in Charting Memory: Recalling  
> Medieval Spain, edited by Stacy Beckwith. Garland, 2000. pp. 155-68.
>
> There is an active and interesting zajal culture in Morocco, but I  
> do not know about its performance practices. For more on that, see  
> Deborah Kapchan's "Zajal" in Mediterraneans 11 (Winter 1990-2000):  
> 45-47
>
> Great question.
>
> Alex
>
>
> Alexander Elinson
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> From: andalusi_studies-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu  
> [andalusi_studies-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] on behalf of Dangler,  
> C.Jean [jdangler at tulane.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:56 AM
> To: David Wacks; andalusi_studies at lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: Re: [Andalusi Studies] Muwashshah in modern music
>
> Dear David,
>
> I love this question.  Here is a link to an article from the MESA  
> Bulletin on the muwashshahat in modern Syrian performance:
>
> http://www.jstor.org/stable/23063089
>
> Google Scholar brings up a couple of other interesting sources as  
> well, most notably Tova Rosen?s brief discussion in the chapter from  
> The Literature of Al-Andalus, where she mentions the muwashshah as  
> part of the repertoire of the Lebanese singer Fairouz.  Extending  
> the question to the zajal, Alex Elinson gave a paper last fall at  
> the SCMLA in New Orleans on Driss Mesnnaoui, a current Moroccan  
> writer and zajal poet, though I don?t believe he performs with music.
>
> Good luck,
> Jean
>
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> From: andalusi_studies-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu  
> [mailto:andalusi_studies-bounces at lists.uoregon.edu] On Behalf Of  
> David Wacks
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:31 AM
> To: andalusi_studies at lists.uoregon.edu
> Subject: [Andalusi Studies] Muwashshah in modern music
>
> Dear Andalusiyyin,
> Can anyone refer to to scholarship dealing with the muwashshah as a  
> modern performance genre? Thanks very much.
>
> Best regards,
> David
>
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