“Among the Jasmine Trees…”
So I’m in the middle of “Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Syria” by Jonathan Holt Shannon who’s one of the leading experts on Arabic music (from an academic standpoint). What I’m really struck by is the story, and I hear and read this time and time again, of the issue of Modernization [...]
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