In 2009, the U.S. Library of Congress officially launched the Ragheb Moftah Collection, an online exhibit that presented the largest music archive of Coptic liturgical recordings and music transcriptions outside of Egypt. Moftah, an amateur Egyptian collector, had commissioned an English composer, Ernest Newlandsmith, to notate and record the entire Orthodox hymnody. They both believed that, as the last connection to a Pharaonic and pre-Islamic past, the ancient melodies lay unchanged, “buried under a debris of Arabic and other ornamentation.” Drawing on Wendy Cheng’s notion of strategic orientalism (2013) and Timothy Mitchell’s staging modernity (2000), I explore contemporary discursive politics of sound archives in the Coptic community. S...
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International audienceThe traditional transmission of the Arab art music of the Near East is based o...
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid ...
Philological and literary studies on Coptic language and literature have faced a growing interest in...
This dissertation explores the historical and contemporary forms of musical conceptualization, theor...
International audienceThe study of Christian minorities in Islamic societies is fundamental to under...
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt has produced one of the world’s most extensive and profound litu...
Historians designate the early decades of the nineteenth century as the beginning of the modern era ...
L’autonomisation de l’art instrumental arabe et, plus particulièrement, l’éclosion de l’art improvis...
International audienceHalim el-Dabh (1921-2017) is a collector of “traditional” music and a pioneer ...
Successive civilisations in Egypt created the current Egyptian culture. This started with the ancien...
Afreudite : Revista Lusófona de Psicanálise Pura e AplicadaThe thematic and anathematic in music-mak...
Cette thèse de doctorat porte sur les musiques coptes d Égypte dans leurs dimensions anthropologique...
This dissertation explores Coptic Orthodox political (dis)engagement through song, particularly as i...
Sounding History offers the first in depth analysis of Egypt’s cassette culture. In focusing on the ...
A glance at the ethnomusicology of the Muslim-majority Middle East might suggest it is peculiarly ex...
International audienceThe traditional transmission of the Arab art music of the Near East is based o...
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid ...
Philological and literary studies on Coptic language and literature have faced a growing interest in...