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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “deborah kapchan”
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  • Theorizing Sound Writing

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Poetic Justice

    An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry

    Edited by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
    Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. The work is primarily composed of poets who began writing after Moroccan independence in 1956 and includes work written in Moroccan Arabic (darija), classical Arabic, French, and Tamazight.Why Poetic Justice? Moroccan poetry (and especially zajal, oral poetry now written in Moroccan Arabic) is often published in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Taking Leave

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Practices
    Deborah Kapchan’s Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in Islam, Kapchan examines the extent to which we can take leave of who we are to live between categories. She ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Traveling Spirit Masters

    Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace

    by Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    by Kevin Dwyer, David McMurray, Katherine E. Hoffman, Paul A. Silverstein, Emilio Spadola, Jamila Bargach, Charlotte van den Hout, Karen Rignall, Deborah Kapchan ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Moving Matters

    Paths of Serial Migration

    by Susan Ossman ...
    Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world of territorial borders and legal restrictions—yet as they move from one country to another, they can use border ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Exhausted on the Cross

    by Najwan Darwish ...
    Translated by Kareem James Abu-Zeid ...
    A much-anticipated follow-up to Nothing More to Lose, this is only the second poetry collection translated into English from a vital voice of Arabic literature.“We drag histories behind us,” the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish writes in Exhausted on the Cross, “here / where there’s neither land / nor sky.” In pared-down lines, brilliantly translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Trials of Arab Modernity

    Literary Affects and the New Political

    by Tarek El-Ariss ...
    Challenging prevalent conceptualizations of modernity—which treat it either as a Western ideology imposed by colonialism or as a universal narrative of progress and innovation—this study instead offers close readings of the simultaneous performances and contestations of modernity staged in works by authors such as Rifa’a al-Tahtawi, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Tayeb Salih, Hanan al-Shaykh, Hamdi Abu ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Experimental Nations

    Or, the Invention of the Maghreb

    by Réda Bensmaïa ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Jean-Paul Sartre's famous question, "For whom do we write?" strikes close to home for francophone writers from the Maghreb. Do these writers address their compatriots, many of whom are illiterate or read no French, or a broader audience beyond Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia? In Experimental Nations, Réda Bensmaïa argues powerfully against the tendency to view their works not as literary creations ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ex-Centric Migrations

    Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music

    by Hakim Abderrezak ...
    "Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration." — Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial StudiesEx-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women's Songs from West Africa

    Edited by Thomas A. Hale, Aissata G. Sidikou ...
    Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnomusicology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Timothy Rice ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to properly address these questions, we must study music in all its geographical and historical diversity ... Read more

    $7.99 USD