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Music in Druze Life: Ritual, Values and Performance Practice By Kathleen Hood Introduction by Ali Jihad Racy |
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Music in Druze Life: Ritual, Values and Performance Practice By Kathleen Hood Introduction by Ali Jihad Racy |
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Based in part on Hood’s Ph.D. dissertation, “Music and Memory in a Global Age: Wedding Songs of the Syrian Druzes” (2002), which was partially funded through Turath.org’s A. J. Racy Fellowship for Arab Music Studies, this book focuses on the musical heritage of the Druzes, an Arabic-speaking people who live in the Near East. The book is accompanied by a CD of musical excerpts that were recorded live at weddings, funerals, and other events.
“Kathleen Hood’s Music in Druze Life: Ritual, Values, and Performance Practice offers the most detailed study to date of the musical life of the Druze of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel.” – Jonathan H. Shannon, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College
“Music in Druze Life is a major contribution to our understanding of what distinguishes Druze music and the contexts in which this music is located.” – Philip S. Khoury, Ford International Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ISBN 13: 978-1-904850-13-7
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