Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932)

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-26319-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) was a pioneering musicologist who specialized in Arab music. In 1932, he participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo, during which he maintained a journal recording his daily activities, interactions with fellow delegates and dignitaries, and varied perambulations throughout the city. This journal, and the detailed minutes he kept for his chaired Commission on History and Manuscripts, were never published. They reveal aspects and inner-workings of the Congress that have hitherto remained unknown. The illustrations and photos contained therein, as well as additional photos that were never seen, provide visual documentation of the Congress’s participants and musical ensembles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katz, Israel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Craik, Sheila M.

Shiloah, Amnon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Nichtwestliche Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Amnon Shiloah)
Preface (Sheila M. Craik)
Introduction
Chapter One: Henry George Farmer: His life and works to his fiftieth birthday
Chapter Two: The First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo, 1932)
Chapter Three: Farmer’s “Itinerary of visit to Cairo”
Collage of photos from the Kurt Schindler Collection
Chapter Four: The Commission of History and Manuscripts
Chapter Five: Afterthoughts and follow-up
Appendices
Bibliography
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Israel J. Katz, Ph.D. (1967), University of California at Los Angeles, is Research Associate at the University of California at Davis. He has published monographs and articles on Judeo-Spanish and Portuguese traditional ballads, including The Traditional Folk Music and Dances of Spain: A Bibliographical Guide to Research (HSMS, 2009).