Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and Its Jewish Diasporas

by Ruth Davis

The essays in Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas extend beyond the music of medieval Iberia and its Mediterranean Jewish diasporas to wider aspects of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. The authors offer new perspectives on theories of musical interaction, hybridization, and the cultural meaning of musical expression in diasporic and minority communities. The essays address how music is implicated in constructions of ethnicity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810881756
• ISBN13: 9780810881754
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"