Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultanate of OmanVWB - Verlag für Wissenschat und Bildung, 2009 - 248 Seiten 4e de couv.: The Arabian Peninsula, and in particular, the coastal areas of the Arab Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arab Sea, boast since times immemorial a wealth of cultural forms to which the people of the desert and those of the sea and from across the seas have amply contributed. The arts - music, dance, poetry in performance - not only testify to a deep history and express diverse ethnic identities; as an integral part of daily life they are also instrumental in balancing multicultural society and adapting local communities to the effects of national and global modernization. The authors have studied, during several residences between 1985 and 2006, the state and evolution of performance practices and the social roles of performed arts in Sohar, an ancient and still important coastal town of the Sultanate of Oman. The book situates and describes the arts (al-funun) and their practitioners in the province and town of Sohar, studies the underlying concepts and the social networks through which the arts exist, and analyses the forces of change that have affected the arts as part of society in Sohar. |
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abū Afifah Ajam al-mālid al-Maqbāli al-razhah al-zār Allāh aqīd Arab artists arts in Sohar August ayyālah āzī badawiyah barakah Barqah beach beat Bedouin Belush bride celebrations chorus circle circumcision dān dance drummers enacted fann father Felej firaq firqah frame drums front funūn Gharib ghunnah al-nisā groom Halimah halqah Hambar hawwimah hinnah Id al-fitr instruments invitation jalālah kāsir khalifah Khamis khund kwāsah lāl lead singer lewah line of dancers mālid manteqah mawlid Mejīs melody microphone mizmār move movements Muhammad Muscat Music recordings CD musundu nadher oboe oboe player Omani pakit palm participants performance groups plural poetry procession province qurbah ra'is raḥmānī ramsah razfah razḥah razīf readers recitation rhythm ritual riwayah saff Ṣallān sha'ir shallah shallāt shaykh singing sitting Ṣobbārah social Sohar Sohar town songs sticks Suleyman Sultan Swahili Swehrah Ta'bū Talib tawhid traditional verse village wahhābīyah Wali Wali's office wedding women Yusif zaffat zammār zār