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Among the Jasmine Trees
Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria
Jonathan Shannon
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• List of Figures • A Note on Transliteration • Preface • Introduction: The Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria • Among the Jasmine Trees • Sentiment and Authentic Spirit: Composing Syrian Modernity • Constructing Musical Authenticity: History, Cultural Memory, Emotion • Body Memory, Temporality, and Transformation in the Dhikr • Authentic Performance and the Performance of Authenticity
• Tarab, Sentiment, and Authenticity • Notes Toward Closure • Epilogue: 2000 • Notes • Glossary of Selected Arabic Terms • Selected Bibliography and Discography • Index
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