Nubat Ramal al-Maya in cultural context : : the pen, the voice, the text / / by Carl Davila.

• Superior document: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume 35
• VerfasserIn: Davila, Carl,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (648 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In this unique edition, Carl Davila takes an original approach to the texts of the modern Moroccan Andalusian music tradition. This volume offers a literary-critical analysis and English translation of the texts of this nūba , studies their linguistic and thematic features, and compares them with key manuscripts and published anthologies. Four introductory chapters and four appendices discuss the role of orality in the tradition and the manuscripts that lie behind the print anthologies. Two supplements cross-reference key poetic images in English and Arabic, and provide information on known authors of the texts. This groundbreaking contribution will interest scholars and students of pre-modern Arabic poetry, muwashshaḥāt , Andalusian music traditions, Arabic Studies, orality, and sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: Al-Āla in Moroccan History and Society -- 2 Toward a Sociolinguistics of the Text -- 3 Al-Āla as a Literary Phenomenon -- 4 Mixed Orality: The Impact of the Voice on the Pen -- Introduction: General Comments -- I. Mīzān al-Basīṭ -- II. Mīzān al-Qāʾīm wa-niṣf -- III. Mīzān al-Bṭāyḥī -- IV. Mīzān ad-Darj -- V. Mīzān al-Quddām -- Supplements -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.