Among the jasmine trees
Subtitle: music and modernity in contemporary Syria
By: Jonathan Holt Shannon.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Middletown, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780819567987
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects -- Syria.; Music -- Syria -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Syria -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ), discography (p.   ), and index.
Table of contents: title: Among the jasmine trees; title: Sentiment and authentic spirit : composing Syrian modernity; title: Constructing musical authenticity : history, cultural memory, emotion; title: Body memory, temporality, and transformation in the dhikr; title: Authentic performance and the performance of authenticity; title: Tarab, sentiment, and authenticity : seven notes toward closure.