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Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Silver, Christopher

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral World HistoryWorld Music

ISBN10: 1503631680
ISBN13: 9781503631687
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jun 28 2022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization.

If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities.

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