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Music in Bahrain: Traditional Music of the Arabian Gulf

Poul Rovsing Olsen

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Description:Though its rich subject stretches back thousands of years, Music of Bahrain was the first book written on it, and the only available outside Arabic. Poul Rovsing Olsen, a Western ethnomusicologist and composer of international renown, first went to Bahrain to record its music in 1958, and he continued to do so at intervals during the next twenty years. He finished this book shortly before his death in 1982, but the manuscript lay forgotten until the Moesgaard Museum recently became aware of it and decided to publish it in cooperation with the Bahrain Ministry of Information. In 1958, oil had replaced pearls as the island's primary source of wealth, and traditional music had begun to decline. Rovsing Olsen searched out music wherever he could, at private village weddings and performances for dignitaries, in the houses of retired pearl divers and sessions at Radio Bahrain. A cross-section of these recordings is preserved on the three CDs that accompany this volume. Among other things, there are chapters devoted to religious singing, African influences, the music of pearl divers, women's songs and festive dances. It is the spirit of festive dance that seems, more than any other, to animate the many musical genres of Bahraini music, in which, as Rovsing Olsen once wrote, "the feast was the real essence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Music in Bahrain: Traditional Music of the Arabian Gulf. To get started finding Music in Bahrain: Traditional Music of the Arabian Gulf, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Though its rich subject stretches back thousands of years, Music of Bahrain was the first book written on it, and the only available outside Arabic. Poul Rovsing Olsen, a Western ethnomusicologist and composer of international renown, first went to Bahrain to record its music in 1958, and he continued to do so at intervals during the next twenty years. He finished this book shortly before his death in 1982, but the manuscript lay forgotten until the Moesgaard Museum recently became aware of it and decided to publish it in cooperation with the Bahrain Ministry of Information. In 1958, oil had replaced pearls as the island's primary source of wealth, and traditional music had begun to decline. Rovsing Olsen searched out music wherever he could, at private village weddings and performances for dignitaries, in the houses of retired pearl divers and sessions at Radio Bahrain. A cross-section of these recordings is preserved on the three CDs that accompany this volume. Among other things, there are chapters devoted to religious singing, African influences, the music of pearl divers, women's songs and festive dances. It is the spirit of festive dance that seems, more than any other, to animate the many musical genres of Bahraini music, in which, as Rovsing Olsen once wrote, "the feast was the real essence."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Music in Bahrain: Traditional Music of the Arabian Gulf. To get started finding Music in Bahrain: Traditional Music of the Arabian Gulf, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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