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<div dir="auto">Moroccan Jewish women, especially before marriage, sang on swings in the inner courtyards of their houses, in the early spring. In Judeo-Spanish they often sang narrative ballads (romances), taking turns, with a little rhyme in between one girl
and another. Not sure what they sang in Arabic/French speaking areas. One woman's reminiscence, in French, was "my father made me a swing but wouldn let me sing."</div>
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1. Query regarding women's "swinging songs" (chansons de<br>
l'escarpolette) (Dwight Reynolds)<br>
2. New paper on Maimonides' glossary with Romance glosses<br>
(Jose Martinez Delgado)<br>
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 12:31:51 -0700<br>
From: Dwight Reynolds <dreynold@religion.ucsb.edu><br>
To: Andalusi_Studies@lists.uoregon.edu, Dwight Reynolds<br>
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Subject: [Andalusi Studies] Query regarding women's "swinging songs"<br>
(chansons de l'escarpolette)<br>
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Women's "swinging songs":<br>
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Gilbert Meynier in his "*L'Alg?rie, c?ur du Maghreb classique. De<br>
l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (698-1518)*", ?ditions La D?couverte,<br>
Paris, 2011 includes the following list of genres of Arabo-Andalusi poetry:<br>
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*"Fleurissent, outre les quatrains classiques (rub?'?yy?t), les wa?la(s),<br>
suites de pi?ces vocales et instrumentales, les pan?gyriques en vers<br>
(qa??da[s]), le balancement des murajjah?t, le scintillement du genre<br>
muwashshah, chansons de quelques strophes de contenu apolog?tique ou/et<br>
amoureux, et le zajal, po?sie famili?re, plus sensuelle et plus crue, ?<br>
distance du surmoi courtois europ?en."* (p.126)<br>
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In a footnote explaining the term *murajjah?t *he writes: "*Litt?ralement,<br>
chant des femmes qui se balancent sur l'escarpolette (marj?ha)*".<br>
[Literally, songs of women swinging on swings]<br>
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These songs are known in Algeria as *?awf?* (see for example, Mourad<br>
Yelles-Chaouche, *Le ?awf?: po?sie feminine et tradition orale au Maghreb.<br>
*Algiers: Office des Publications Universitaires, 1990). And I have noted<br>
in several recent publications the similarity between these poems and the<br>
bilingual kharjas found in some Andalusi muwashshahat (for example, *The<br>
Musical Heritage of al-Andalus*, 2022, pp. 160-61) -- short couplet,<br>
tercets or quatrains composed in the voice of a young unmarried girl, often<br>
complaining to her mother about the trials of love, her desires for a<br>
handsome young man, or complaining about the way men treat her.<br>
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At the time, however, I had never heard or read any reference to Andalusi<br>
"swinging" songs -- I have not argued for any direct (i.e., genealogical)<br>
connection, but merely noted the similarity and hypothesized that such oral<br>
genres of women's poetry may have been common in various regions of the<br>
western Mediterranean.<br>
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*Have any of you come across references to this as a genre of Andalusi<br>
poetry or know of examples?*<br>
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Many thanks,<br>
Dwight<br>
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Dwight F. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor<br>
Arabic Language & Literature<br>
Department of Religious Studies<br>
University of California, Santa Barbara<br>
<dreynold@ucsb.edu><br>
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:08:37 +0100<br>
From: Jose Martinez Delgado <pdelgado@ugr.es><br>
To: Andalusi_Studies@lists.uoregon.edu<br>
Subject: [Andalusi Studies] New paper on Maimonides' glossary with<br>
Romance glosses<br>
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Dear Colleagues<br>
Please let us share with all of you our new publication on Maimonides' <br>
glossary with Romance glosses.<br>
We hope it will be of some interest to you.<br>
<a href="https://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/view/1189">https://sefarad.revistas.csic.es/index.php/sefarad/article/view/1189</a><br>
Best regards<br>
Pepe<br>
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Jos? Mart?nez Delgado<br>
Dep. de Estudios Sem?ticos, 11<br>
Fac. de Filosof?a y Letras<br>
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