Tarab

Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

Edited by Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus, and Dwight Reynolds

University of Texas Press

How the concept of ṭarab has impacted music and culture across the Islamic world.

Contents

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