Tarab
Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance
University of Texas Press
How the concept of ṭarab has impacted music and culture across the Islamic world.
- A Note on Transliteration
- List of Illustrations
- An Introduction to Ṭarab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance (Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus, and Dwight F. Reynolds)
- 1. Ṭarab in Extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources (Dwight F. Reynolds)
- 2. The Other Ṭarab (George Dmitri Sawa)
- 3. Judeo-Sufi Musical Intersections (Edwin Seroussi)
- 4. A Tale of Two Ṭarabs: Intercultural Music in the Late Ottoman Empire (John O’Connell)
- 5. Sayyid Darwish and Ṭarab (Virginia Danielson)
- 6. From Ṭarab to Turāth: Fifty Years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt (Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco)
- 7. Ṭarab in the Grooves: Reconsidering a Transitional Moment in the Arab American Arts Economy (Anne K. Rasmussen)
- 8. The Two Tenors: The Ṭarab Artistry of Wadih El Safi and Sabah Fakhri (Sami W. Asmar)
- 9. The Sufi Source of Ṭarab (Michael Frishkopf)
- 10. From Lament to Prayer: Music and Emotional Shifts in the Funeral Ritual of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon (Guilnard Moufarrej)
- 11. Heroism, Desire, Ecstasy: Qamili i Vogël, Kosova Albanian Urban Song, and the Cultivation of Elation (Jane C. Sugarman)
- 12. Sweaty Transcendence and Affect: The Labor of Musical Ecstasy (Sonia Tamar Seeman)
- 13. Teaching Ṭarab: Embodied Interpersonal Learning in University Ensembles (Anne Elise Thomas)
- 14. Songs of the Ṭarab Repertoire: Sites for Understandings Beyond Affect (Scott Marcus)
- 15. Curating Tarab on Music Streaming Services: The Cultural Politics of Localization on Spotify, Anghami, and Deezer (Darci Sprengel)
- Contributors
- Index
