Traditionally, students learning the maqāmātare taught aurally, in the master-student paradigm, where phrase-by-phrase they acquire knowledge of the maqāmāt, which forms the building blocks of taqsīmand composition. While Western forms of notation for the representation of Arabic maqāmāt have increasingly been used to represent these modes...more >>
Eastern European chazanut [hazzanut] is a form of art which has developed gradually since the mid-eighteenth century and reached a certain peak in the first half of the twentieth century. Eastern European cantors were brought up in the Orthodox tradition, some of them also in the Chasidic tradition, and their cantorial music stems from these musical legacies...more >>
Irna Priore (University of North Carolina) and Chris Stover (New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music)
Bossa nova flourished in Brazil at the end of the 1950s. This was a time of rapid development and economic prosperity in the country, following President Jucelino Kubitschek’s 1956 proclamation of “fifty years of progress in five,” but after the 1964 coup d’état, when General Humberto Castello Branco’s military regime took control of Brazil...more >>
