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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>[Apologies for cross-listings]<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus </i>is now available in
an OpenAccess edition.<span> </span>The entire volume
can be downloaded as a single PDF, or the individual chapters may be downloaded
separately to make it easier to assign them as readings in university courses.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Musical-Heritage-of-Al-Andalus/Reynolds/p/book/9780367653613" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.routledge.com/The-Musical-Heritage-of-Al-Andalus/Reynolds/p/book/9780367653613</a><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 45pt 8pt 0.25in;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><i>Winner of the 2022 Premio del Rey book Prize
(American History Association) and the 2022 Early Music prize (American Musicological
Society)<span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.5in 8pt 0.25in;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“. . . The twelve chapters of <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The
Musical Heritage of al-Andalus</span></em> track the pernicious politics of ‘influence’;
interreligious and intercultural negotiations beyond the traditional, narrow
tripartition of Muslims, Christians, and Jews; gender roles and sexual
identities; the development of ‘revolutionary’ Arabic and Hebrew lyric genres
in Iberia; and the complex intertwining of social status, ethnicity,
enslavement, and music professionalization (alongside much more). . . Reynolds
makes accessible a rich body of work that may be unfamiliar to the wider
readership that the book invites, and offers compelling new arguments for
specialized readers.”<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.5in 8pt 0in;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This is the companion
volume to <i>Medieval Arab Music and Musicians </i>(Brill 2022) that was
released as an OpenAccess edition earlier this month:<span></span></p>
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