Essays + Stories
Some of the essays here are links, and some are originals submitted to the project
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Musical archeologist Karl Gert zur Heide offers The Orientalization of American Show Business - A Selective
Timeline, a chronology exploring the impact of cultural traits from the orient on North American
entertainment from the mid-19th century until the Great War. Published here for the first time.
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The Faculty of the Arts, at the University of
Sidney, Australia in their Documents In Context
section, has published an excerpt from Dizzy Gillespie's
autobiography, To Be, Or Not ... To Bop 'The Cult of
Bebop'. This is a fascinating look at some of the
reasons American Black jazz musicians were drawn to
Islam. By the way ARC has a signed first edition of
this book in our collection (Gillespie, Dizzy with Al
Fraser, Doubleday & Company, USA, cloth, 552pp,
1979)
- Radio Tripoli is
an essay on the broadcasting of traditional Libyan music
in the 1930s by invaluable ARC volunteer and
musicologist, Dr. Isabella Abbonizio.
- Dr. Michael Frishkopf is
a musician, Associate Professor, Department of Music at the University of Alberta, Canada, Associate
Director Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE) and
author of Music and Media in the Arab World (American
University in Cairo Press, 2010). Here you'll find a
wide range of his excellent writings.
- The Human Wolrd and Musical Diversity
concerning Music and Minorities in Varna, Bulgaria, by Dorit Klebe, assistant professor, College of Music, Berlin University of the Arts and
president of the ICTM (International Council for
Traditional Music UNESCO/NGO)
- Two papers by Efi Latifah and Ary Budiyanto from Gadjah Mada
University, Indonesia, on nasyid,qasidah, Music Religi Popular and gender: Performing
Qasidah, Transforming Nation - The Institutionalization
of Islamic Music, its Dynamic Development, and the
Implications for Gender in Indonesia and Lasqi and the
Questions on Islamic Women Leadership
- Islam's Answer to MTV The New
York Times has a look at 4Shbab, the world's first Islamic version of MTV in Egypt
- French - Algerian Jazz player Camel Zekri.
- Music in the World of Islam by John A. Maurer IV
- Orientalist Party Music
by Saki Knafo and first published in Believer Magazine. ALL of the recordings mentioned here are
illustrated in our Bellydance gallery.
- Muslim Roots, US
Blues by Jonathan Curiel for the lavish and interesting oil + culture trumpet, Saudi Aramco World
Magazine.