Description
This presentation focuses on the nūbas (suites) that were featured in a music manuscript entitled Safāīn al-Mālūf al-Tūnisī (1872), through which mālūf, Arab-Andalusian music heritage with its roots in the courtly tradition of medieval Islamic Spain, underwent a process of redefinition, from oral transmission into Western notation. I review ways in which this North African genre, has been constructed and discussed both in Tunisian musicological literature (Rezgui, 1968; Guettat, 1980, 200; Sakli, 1994) and in Western (ethno)musicological literature (Jones, 1977; Davis, 2004) by offering new perspectives on methodological approaches.
Speaker
Salvatore Morra
(University of Cambridge)
