13. Middle East (North Africa, Central Asia)
NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).
Selected online:
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: The Middle East (Volume 6)
Middle East and North Africa (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)
Archive of World Music (Harvard University), located in the Loeb Music Library houses many commercial world music recordings (find in Hollis) and also archival collections, including the Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music, and a substantial number of recordings from the Arab world.
AWM also houses much of the sound recordings content of the Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten Archive. Baroness Ullens spent several months every year between 1951 and 1972 in Iran, documenting the Qashqa'i and the Bakhtiari peoples, as well as the Kurds and Türkmen, and Sufi dervishes in photography, film, and sound recordings. The recordings herein range from live recordings to radio recordings of the time.
Harvard College Library Research Guide for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Art, Architecture, Film and Music)
Al Jadid Magazine - Music and Dance
Fairuz Online (Lebanese singer known world-wide)
Maqam: Caravan to Culture
Middle Eastern CDs and DVDs for sale (dance, music, songbooks, instruction).
Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972
Presents Mark Slobin's fieldwork in Afghanistan; includes text, images, sound and video files. Maintained by Wesleyan University.
Turath Theory of Arab Music by Ali Jihad Racy (UCLA)
Selected print and media:
Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video
by
Jane E. Goodman
Location
Discovering the Music of the Middle East
Barr Films; dir by Bernard Wilets
Location: Loeb Music Archive of World Music V 11284
Fayrouz, Legend and Legacy
ed by Kamal Boullata and Sargon Boulus
Location: Loeb Music Seeger Room Mus 2491.30.26
The Voice of Egypt : Umm Kulthūm, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century
by Virginia Danielson (curator, Archive of World Music)
Location 1: Lamont ML420.U46 D36 1997
Location 2: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML420.U46 D36 1997
Location 3: Tozzer AFR.N.E. D 228 v
Location 4: Widener WID-LC ML420.U46 D36 1997
