Postcards played an important role throughout the first half of the twentieth century in French-ruled Algeria, offering a fast and affordable means of communication between North Africa and Europe for French citizens working and travelling in the Maghreb. Alongside depictions of beautiful scenery and highly-exoticised subjects, a large body of postcards portrayed musicians, musical instruments and musical performances. This article considers how these postcards shaped French understandings of Algerian music, and Algerian culture more broadly. Algerian musicians were unlikely to appear on public radio broadcasts in France during this period, and these small, inexpensive, mass-produced images thus provided the way in which much of the French ...
Between 1830 and 1962, the North African nation of Algeria came to be the star of the French colonia...
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, France embarked on the conquest of its modern colon...
International audienceThe Postal and Telecommunication administration offers a complex picture of co...
Postcards played an important role throughout the first half of the twentieth century in French-rule...
Dans cette thèse, nous tâchons de démontrer que l’histoire de la musique à Alger entre les années 18...
explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the...
In this dissertation, we seek to demonstrate that the history of music in Algiers from the 1860s to ...
“Disharmony of Empire: Race and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa” focuses on...
This thesis looks at how news shaped people's relationship to the world in Algeria under French rule...
Dans cette thèse, nous tâchons de démontrer que l’histoire de la musique à Alger entre les années 18...
The thesis presents ethnographic data and musical analysis (in the form of transcriptions) of Haul m...
From the early twentieth century and through at least mid-century, indigenous North African Jews cam...
International audienceThroughout the colonial period, Algerian users are largely absent from adminis...
Gnawa Diffusion was a successful musical group of first- and second-generation North African immigra...
Cette thèse présente un aperçu de la vie musicale beyrouthine au début du XXème siècle, tout en suiv...
Between 1830 and 1962, the North African nation of Algeria came to be the star of the French colonia...
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, France embarked on the conquest of its modern colon...
International audienceThe Postal and Telecommunication administration offers a complex picture of co...
Postcards played an important role throughout the first half of the twentieth century in French-rule...
Dans cette thèse, nous tâchons de démontrer que l’histoire de la musique à Alger entre les années 18...
explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the...
In this dissertation, we seek to demonstrate that the history of music in Algiers from the 1860s to ...
“Disharmony of Empire: Race and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa” focuses on...
This thesis looks at how news shaped people's relationship to the world in Algeria under French rule...
Dans cette thèse, nous tâchons de démontrer que l’histoire de la musique à Alger entre les années 18...
The thesis presents ethnographic data and musical analysis (in the form of transcriptions) of Haul m...
From the early twentieth century and through at least mid-century, indigenous North African Jews cam...
International audienceThroughout the colonial period, Algerian users are largely absent from adminis...
Gnawa Diffusion was a successful musical group of first- and second-generation North African immigra...
Cette thèse présente un aperçu de la vie musicale beyrouthine au début du XXème siècle, tout en suiv...
Between 1830 and 1962, the North African nation of Algeria came to be the star of the French colonia...
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, France embarked on the conquest of its modern colon...
International audienceThe Postal and Telecommunication administration offers a complex picture of co...