Musical Exodus

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 and nationhood and of myth and history, while also examining the resurgence of Al-Andalus as a symbol in musical projects that claim to promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. The diverse scholarship in Musical Exodus makes a vital contribution to scholars of music and European and Jewish history.

Ruth F. Davis

Acknowledgments Introduction: Musical Exodus, Musical Incoming Chapter 1: Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and the Formation of Medieval Andalusian Music by Dwight F. Reynolds Chapter 2: Judeo-Spanish melodies in the liturgy of Tangier, Morocco: Feminine Imprints in a Masculine Space by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Chapter 3: The Place of Music in Early Modern Italian Jewish Culture by Daniel Jütte Chapter 4: Fiore d'eterno: Music and Liturgy of the Jews of San Nicandro Garganico by Piergabriele Mancuso Chapter 5: Enlightenment Andalus-Herder's Search for Mediterranean Modernity in the Jewish Past by Philip V. Bohlman Chapter 6: Modal Trails, Model Trials: Musical Migrants and Mystical Critics in Turkey by John Morgan O'Connell Chapter 7: Jewish Fingers and Phantom Musical Presences: Remembrance of Jewish Musicians in 20th C. Aleppo, Syria by Jonathan H. Shannon Chapter 8: Jewish Musicians in the "Musique Orientale" of Oran, Algeria by Tony Langlois Chapter 9: Tafillalt's "Soulmate