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Review of Middle East Studies, Volume 12 - Issue 1 - 01 February 1978

Contents

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Research Article

  • A Report on the Available Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States

  • Lorraine Sakata, Charlotte F. Albright, A. Jihad Racy, Philip Schuyler
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2016, pp. 1-12

  • Recordings of Middle Eastern music are too numerous to list and discuss individually here, but certain exemplary recordings and labels will be noted in this report.

    Generally speaking, there are two types of recordings of Middle Eastern music available in the United States. One type is intended for general audiences and includes popular music sung by internationally known singers such as Um Kalthum and Fairuz, and orchestral ensembles playing what has become known as “Belly dance” or “Oriental dance” music. Intended for relatively easy listening, very little information is offered about the performances; the main attraction being the artists themselves or the accompaniment to dance. The second type of recording is generally more informative and concentrates on the music as well as the musicians. The division between the two types is certainly not clear cut and many recordings may be described as a little of each.

Foreign Research Report

  • A Guide to Orientalist Research in Soviet Central Asia

  • R. D. McChesney
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2016, pp. 13-25

  • In 1976–1977, the writer spent nine months in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, collecting material for a study of Central Asia in the seventeenth century. Obviously then, what follows is biased in the direction of historical research. It also, of necessity, reflects the author’s own experience and omits mention of resources to which he did not in some measure have access.

Anthropology and Sociology

Book Reviews

Literature

Book Reviews

Political Science

Book Reviews

History

Book Reviews

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