Ali Jihad Racy
Biographic Data
| ID | 126496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ali Jihad Racy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ali Jihad |
| FAMILY NAME | Racy |
| SIGNATURE | RACY A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Homeland in the Literature and Music of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil
In this study, we examine the notion of homeland among Syrian-Lebanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, a community that for almost one hundred years has established a prominent presence in the host country and has undergone significant social, political, and economic transformation. As we investigate the representations of the homeland in the realms of literature and music across several generations, we seek a better understanding of …
‘Abd al-Hayy Hilmi 1857–1912: An Anthology. 2013. Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research P1131188. Recorded and edited by Lama Ṣawāyā. Mastered and supervised by Mu⋅afá Sa'īd. Annotated by M…
‘Abd al-Hayy Hilmi 1857–1912: An Anthology. 2013. Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research P1131188. Recorded and edited by Lama Ṣawāyā. Mastered and supervised by Mu⋅⃛afá Sa'īd. Annotated by Mu⋅⃛afá Sa'īd, Frédéric Lagrange, and Nidaa Abou Mrad. 72-page booklet with notes in English, French, and Arabic. English translation by Joyce Akl; Arabic translation by Fādī al-‘Abdallah. Colour and b/w photographs, glossary, bibliography. 4 CDs, 11…
“Can't Help but Speak, Can't Help but Play”Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy
This chapter opens with a discussion of dual discourse in Arab music pedagogy in an interview with Ali Jihad Racy. It also presents the early background and career trajectory of Ali Jihad Racy's versatility as a performer-researcher which was found highly desirable when he joined UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). For the last twenty years or so, the UCLA Near East Ensemble has been a prime context for teaching performance of Arab musi…
Lebanon
Raḥbānī family
Raḥbānī, Ziyād
Raḥbānī, Manṣūr
Raḥbānī, ‘Āṣī
The Music of Arab Americans: A Retrospective Collection
The Many Faces of Improvisation: The Arab Taqasim as a Musical Symbol
artistry it entails and the aura of significance it appears to embrace. Creating music in performance is recognized as an art in its own right, but also as an expression imbued with special connotations. In this study, I argue that musical improvisation in the East-Mediterranean Arab world, for example in such major urban centers as Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo, enjoys a primary position because its message is symbolic as well as affective…
The JVC & Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa
Heroes, Lovers, and Poet-Singers: The Bedouin Ethos in the Music of the Arab Near-East
This article investigates the music of the eastern Mediterranean Arab world across nomadic, rural, and urban lines, with primary focus on sung poetry. Song genres expressing basic values within this region, particularly among the Bedouin nomads, are examined in specific village and city contexts. The aim is to gain new insights into the ideological and aesthetic components of traditional Arab music and to better understand the recent patterns of …
A Dialectical Perspective on Musical Instruments: The East-Mediterranean Mijwiz
A partir de l'exemple des doubles pipeaux de roseau (« mijwiz ») des communautes syriennes, libanaises et palestiniennes de l'Est mediterraneen, l'A. montre en quoi les instruments de musique sont en relation avec les realites physiques et culturelles qui les entourent. L'A. explique comment le « mijwiz » en tant qu'appareil accoustique s'adapte a l'ensemble musical du Levant et comment il manifeste ses caracteristiques musicales idiosyncretiques
Music Performance Practice in the Early 'Abbasid Era, 132-320 A. H./750-932 AD
Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance nach der heute noch lebendigen Spielpraxis im Mittelmeeraum
Words and Music in Beirut: A Study of Attitudes
Beirut is an old city, historically and socially linked with traditional values and institutions of the Near East.' Yet, particularly before the civil war, which began in the middle 1970s, this Mediterranean port community has been known for its distinctly modern character and long exposure to Western ways of life. This article illustrates the manner in which music-related expressions currently used in Beirut, and to some extent neighboring Arabi…
Music and Dance in Lebanese Folk Proverbs
Taqasim--The Art of Improvisation in Arabic Music
Musical Aesthetics in Present-Day Cairo
F our widely applicable aesthetic criteria contribute to the acceptability of music within a particular culture: (1) conformity to established tradition; (2) artistic creativity; (3) innovation and modernity; and (4) the cultivation of individual and distinctive musical traits. In contemporary Cairo, tradition, creativity, innovation, and individuality are expressed in various, often imprecise, ways by musical critics, historians, musicians, and …
Music in Contemporary Cairo: A Comparative Overview
Waslah Ghina'iyyah: Ghina' al-Mutrib al-Kabir Salih 'Abd al-Hayy
A Report on the Available Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States
Recordings of Middle Eastern music are too numerous to list and discuss individually here, but certain exemplary recordings and labels will be noted in this report. Generally speaking, there are two types of recordings of Middle Eastern music available in the United States. One type is intended for general audiences and includes popular music sung by internationally known singers such as Um Kalthum and Fairuz, and orchestral ensembles playing wha…
Record Industry and Egyptian Traditional Music: 1904-1932
Musical Aesthetics in Present-Day Cairo
F our widely applicable aesthetic criteria contribute to the acceptability of music within a particular culture: (1) conformity to established tradition; (2) artistic creativity; (3) innovation and modernity; and (4) the cultivation of individual and distinctive musical traits. In contemporary Cairo, tradition, creativity, innovation, and individuality are expressed in various, often imprecise, ways by musical critics, historians, musicians, and …
Record Industry and Egyptian Traditional Music: 1904-1932
Words and Music in Beirut: A Study of Attitudes
Beirut is an old city, historically and socially linked with traditional values and institutions of the Near East.' Yet, particularly before the civil war, which began in the middle 1970s, this Mediterranean port community has been known for its distinctly modern character and long exposure to Western ways of life. This article illustrates the manner in which music-related expressions currently used in Beirut, and to some extent neighboring Arabi…
Music in Contemporary Cairo: A Comparative Overview
The Many Faces of Improvisation: The Arab Taqasim as a Musical Symbol
artistry it entails and the aura of significance it appears to embrace. Creating music in performance is recognized as an art in its own right, but also as an expression imbued with special connotations. In this study, I argue that musical improvisation in the East-Mediterranean Arab world, for example in such major urban centers as Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo, enjoys a primary position because its message is symbolic as well as affective…
A Dialectical Perspective on Musical Instruments: The East-Mediterranean Mijwiz
A partir de l'exemple des doubles pipeaux de roseau (« mijwiz ») des communautes syriennes, libanaises et palestiniennes de l'Est mediterraneen, l'A. montre en quoi les instruments de musique sont en relation avec les realites physiques et culturelles qui les entourent. L'A. explique comment le « mijwiz » en tant qu'appareil accoustique s'adapte a l'ensemble musical du Levant et comment il manifeste ses caracteristiques musicales idiosyncretiques
The Homeland in the Literature and Music of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil
In this study, we examine the notion of homeland among Syrian-Lebanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, a community that for almost one hundred years has established a prominent presence in the host country and has undergone significant social, political, and economic transformation. As we investigate the representations of the homeland in the realms of literature and music across several generations, we seek a better understanding of …
Music and Dance in Lebanese Folk Proverbs
Record Industry and Egyptian Traditional Music: 1904-1932
A Report on the Available Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States
Recordings of Middle Eastern music are too numerous to list and discuss individually here, but certain exemplary recordings and labels will be noted in this report. Generally speaking, there are two types of recordings of Middle Eastern music available in the United States. One type is intended for general audiences and includes popular music sung by internationally known singers such as Um Kalthum and Fairuz, and orchestral ensembles playing wha…
Waslah Ghina'iyyah: Ghina' al-Mutrib al-Kabir Salih 'Abd al-Hayy
Music in Contemporary Cairo: A Comparative Overview
Musical Aesthetics in Present-Day Cairo
F our widely applicable aesthetic criteria contribute to the acceptability of music within a particular culture: (1) conformity to established tradition; (2) artistic creativity; (3) innovation and modernity; and (4) the cultivation of individual and distinctive musical traits. In contemporary Cairo, tradition, creativity, innovation, and individuality are expressed in various, often imprecise, ways by musical critics, historians, musicians, and …
Taqasim--The Art of Improvisation in Arabic Music
Music and Dance in Lebanese Folk Proverbs
Words and Music in Beirut: A Study of Attitudes
Beirut is an old city, historically and socially linked with traditional values and institutions of the Near East.' Yet, particularly before the civil war, which began in the middle 1970s, this Mediterranean port community has been known for its distinctly modern character and long exposure to Western ways of life. This article illustrates the manner in which music-related expressions currently used in Beirut, and to some extent neighboring Arabi…
Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance nach der heute noch lebendigen Spielpraxis im Mittelmeeraum
Music Performance Practice in the Early 'Abbasid Era, 132-320 A. H./750-932 AD
A Dialectical Perspective on Musical Instruments: The East-Mediterranean Mijwiz
A partir de l'exemple des doubles pipeaux de roseau (« mijwiz ») des communautes syriennes, libanaises et palestiniennes de l'Est mediterraneen, l'A. montre en quoi les instruments de musique sont en relation avec les realites physiques et culturelles qui les entourent. L'A. explique comment le « mijwiz » en tant qu'appareil accoustique s'adapte a l'ensemble musical du Levant et comment il manifeste ses caracteristiques musicales idiosyncretiques
Heroes, Lovers, and Poet-Singers: The Bedouin Ethos in the Music of the Arab Near-East
This article investigates the music of the eastern Mediterranean Arab world across nomadic, rural, and urban lines, with primary focus on sung poetry. Song genres expressing basic values within this region, particularly among the Bedouin nomads, are examined in specific village and city contexts. The aim is to gain new insights into the ideological and aesthetic components of traditional Arab music and to better understand the recent patterns of …
The JVC & Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of Africa
The Many Faces of Improvisation: The Arab Taqasim as a Musical Symbol
artistry it entails and the aura of significance it appears to embrace. Creating music in performance is recognized as an art in its own right, but also as an expression imbued with special connotations. In this study, I argue that musical improvisation in the East-Mediterranean Arab world, for example in such major urban centers as Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, and Cairo, enjoys a primary position because its message is symbolic as well as affective…
Lebanon
Raḥbānī family
Raḥbānī, Ziyād
Raḥbānī, Manṣūr
Raḥbānī, ‘Āṣī
The Music of Arab Americans: A Retrospective Collection
“Can't Help but Speak, Can't Help but Play”Dual Discourse in Arab Music Pedagogy
This chapter opens with a discussion of dual discourse in Arab music pedagogy in an interview with Ali Jihad Racy. It also presents the early background and career trajectory of Ali Jihad Racy's versatility as a performer-researcher which was found highly desirable when he joined UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). For the last twenty years or so, the UCLA Near East Ensemble has been a prime context for teaching performance of Arab musi…
‘Abd al-Hayy Hilmi 1857–1912: An Anthology. 2013. Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research P1131188. Recorded and edited by Lama Ṣawāyā. Mastered and supervised by Mu⋅afá Sa'īd. Annotated by M…
‘Abd al-Hayy Hilmi 1857–1912: An Anthology. 2013. Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research P1131188. Recorded and edited by Lama Ṣawāyā. Mastered and supervised by Mu⋅⃛afá Sa'īd. Annotated by Mu⋅⃛afá Sa'īd, Frédéric Lagrange, and Nidaa Abou Mrad. 72-page booklet with notes in English, French, and Arabic. English translation by Joyce Akl; Arabic translation by Fādī al-‘Abdallah. Colour and b/w photographs, glossary, bibliography. 4 CDs, 11…
The Homeland in the Literature and Music of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil
In this study, we examine the notion of homeland among Syrian-Lebanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, a community that for almost one hundred years has established a prominent presence in the host country and has undergone significant social, political, and economic transformation. As we investigate the representations of the homeland in the realms of literature and music across several generations, we seek a better understanding of …
Art (12 works) · History (9 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Visual arts (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works) · Musical (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)