Clara Wenz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Wenz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wenz |
| SIGNATURE | WENZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6510-6733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward a Class-Based Reading of Egyptian Music and Song
Published in 2009, the edited volume Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia represents one of the most important English-language resources for the study of music’s entanglement in the workings of power and power struggles in the modern Middle East and beyond. In the introduction, the editing author and British Iranian ethnomusicologist Laudan Nooshin identifies three “axes of difference” that organize the p…
The Horse Carriage
This essay is part of a larger research project on the intersection of music, animals, and social class dynamics in Egypt. It draws on a fieldwork encounter that I had in Cairo in April 2022 with Salih, a horse-carriage driver, and his horse Ziko (Fig. 1). Together, they operate what is known in Egypt as ḥanṭūr (pl. ḥanāṭīr ), a lightweight four-wheeled horse-carriage, which, designed with a front seat for the coachman, one or two double passenge…
Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War
Aleppo is regarded as one of the historical centres of an urban Arab art music tradition known as 'tarab'. During the war that followed Syria's 2011 political uprisings, vast parts of the city were destroyed. This Element explores how 'tarab' lives on in new contexts. It does so through a focus on the work of Hello Psychaleppo, one of Aleppo's displaced musicians and the pioneer of 'electro-tarab', an eclectic style of urban electronic dance musi…
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Music from Aleppo during the Syrian War
Aleppo is regarded as one of the historical centres of an urban Arab art music tradition known as 'tarab'. During the war that followed Syria's 2011 political uprisings, vast parts of the city were destroyed. This Element explores how 'tarab' lives on in new contexts. It does so through a focus on the work of Hello Psychaleppo, one of Aleppo's displaced musicians and the pioneer of 'electro-tarab', an eclectic style of urban electronic dance musi…
Toward a Class-Based Reading of Egyptian Music and Song
Published in 2009, the edited volume Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia represents one of the most important English-language resources for the study of music’s entanglement in the workings of power and power struggles in the modern Middle East and beyond. In the introduction, the editing author and British Iranian ethnomusicologist Laudan Nooshin identifies three “axes of difference” that organize the p…
The Horse Carriage
This essay is part of a larger research project on the intersection of music, animals, and social class dynamics in Egypt. It draws on a fieldwork encounter that I had in Cairo in April 2022 with Salih, a horse-carriage driver, and his horse Ziko (Fig. 1). Together, they operate what is known in Egypt as ḥanṭūr (pl. ḥanāṭīr ), a lightweight four-wheeled horse-carriage, which, designed with a front seat for the coachman, one or two double passenge…
Afterlife (1 work) · Aleppo Pine (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Call and response (1 work) · Dance (1 work) · History (1 work) · History and criticism (1 work) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (1 work) · Law (1 work)