Jonathan Holt Shannon

Among the Jasmine Trees


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      Among the Jasmine Trees

      Among the Jasmine Trees

      MUSIC AND MODERNITY IN

      CONTEMPORARY SYRIA

      Jonathan Holt Shannon

      Published by Wesleyan University Press,

      Middletown, CT 06459

      www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2006 by Jonathan Holt Shannon

      Unless otherwise indicated, photographs © 2006 by Jonathan Holt Shannon

      All rights reserved

      First Wesleyan paperback 2009

      Printed in the United States of America

      5 4 3 2

      ISBN for the paperback edition: 978–0–8195–6944–8

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Shannon, Jonathan Holt.

      Among the jasmine trees : music and modernity in

      contemporary Syria / Jonathan Holt Shannon.

      p. cm. — (Music/culture)

      Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ),

      and index.

      ISBN-13: 978–0-8195–6798–7 (cloth : alk. paper)

      ISBN-10: 0–8195–6798–1 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Music—Social aspects—Syria.

      2. Music—Syria—21st century—Philosophy and aesthetics.

      3. Syria—Social life and customs—21st century.

      I. Title. II. Series.

      ML3795.S415 2006

      780.95691—dc22 2005028912

      The publisher gratefully acknowledges assistance from the

      Manfred Bukofzer Publication Endowment Fund of the

      American Musicological Society.

      Wesleyan University Press is member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper

      used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      In Memoriam

      FATEH MOUDARRES

      (1924–1999)

      Dedication

      To my mother,

      LINDA KAY SHANNON

f0vii-01Damascene jasmineHas white clawsThat pierce the walls of memory . . .—Nizār Qabbānī, Lā Ghāliba ilā Allāh

      CONTENTS

List of Figures
A Note on Transliteration
Preface
Introduction: The Aesthetics of Authenticity in Contemporary Syria
ONEAmong the Jasmine Trees
TWOSentiment and Authentic Spirit: Composing Syrian Modernity
THREEConstructing Musical Authenticity: History, Cultural Memory, Emotion
FOURBody Memory, Temporality, and Transformation in the Dhikr
FIVEAuthentic Performance and the Performance of Authenticity
SIXTarab, Sentiment, and Authenticity
SEVENNotes Toward Closure
Epilogue: 2000
Notes
Glossary of Selected Arabic Terms
Selected Bibliography and Discography
Index

      FIGURES

       Yusef al-langAzmeh Square, Damascus, 1996

       Musicians at Omayyad Palace restaurant, Damascus, 1996.

       “Whirling dervish,” Omayyad Palace restaurant, Damascus, 1996.

       Fateh Moudarres in his studio, Damascus, 1981.

       Zuhayr Minīnī, Damascus, 2004.

       Ḥassan Baṣṣal (center), with (from left to right) langAbd al-Ḥalīm Harīrī, Muḥammad Qadrī Dalāl, the author, and Ghassān langAmūrī, Aleppo, 2004.

       Muḥammad Qadrī Dalāl, Aleppo, 2000.

       Aleppo’s Citadel, 2004.

       Aleppine Courtyard: Bayt Wakīl, 1982.

       Naṣīr Shūra. Untitled, Damascene street scene, c. 1959.

       Fateh Moudarres, Olive Growers from Qalamun, 1982.

       Dhikr, Damascus, 1998.

       Wedding munshid-s, Aleppo, 1997.

       Ṣabāḥ