The Music Road: Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India
- Editor: Strohm, Reinhard
Book
$127.75Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Reinhard Strohm: The Music Road: an expedition across time and space
- Keynote
- 2 Martin Stokes: The Middle East in music history: An ethnomusicological perspective
- Alexandrian Tracks
- 3 Gabriela Currie: Sonic entanglements, visual records and the Gandharan nexus
- 4 Ciro Lo Muzio: Persian 'snap': Iranian dancers in Gandhra
- 5 Donatella Restani: Listening between the lines: Alexander's musical legacy in Italy (13th-15th centuries)
- Intercultural Islam
- 6 Andrew Hicks: Mysticism's musical modalities: Philosophies of audition in medieval Persian Sufism
- 7 Lisa Nielson: Samac intertwined in practice: Eight treatises from the ninth to fifteenth centuries
- 8 Slawomira Zeranska-Kominek: Writing the history of unwritten music: On the treatise of Darwesh 'Ali Changi (17th c.)
- 9 Owen Wright: Bridging the Safavid-Ottoman divide
- 10 Kevin Dawe: Musical instruments and world history: A case study of the guitar in the Republic of Turkey
- Indian Encounters
- 11 Margaret Walker: 11 The 'Nautch', the Veil, and the Bayadere: The Indian dance as musical nexus
- 12 Nalini Ghuman: Maud MacCarthy: 'The musicking body'
- Hellas between West and East
- 13 Katy Romanou: The music of the modern Greeks in Western and Eastern music literature, from the ninth to the 19th century
- 14 Walter Puchner: A typology of Western music and theatre activity in South-East Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region in premodern times (16th-19th century)
- 15 Kostas Kardamis: Orientalism in the art music of the Ionian islands
- 16 Avra Xepapadakou: European itinerant opera and operetta companies touring in the Near and Middle East
- A Gypsy Epilogue
- 17 Anna G. Piotrowska: From 'rhapsodic gypsy' to 'gypsy rhapsody'
- General bibliography
- Index