Arabic-L:LIT:Dialect Literature

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Date: 23 Nov 2009
From: <m7schub at aol.de>
Subject:Dialect Literature

Dear Sensei Bobby-San,
     Please see Cohen, Dalia and Ruth Katz:  *Palestinian Arab Music:  A Maqaam Tradition in Practice*
Chicago 2006.  ISBN#  0-226-11299-3, and paah-tee.
      Best wishes,
                  Mike Schub   m7schub at aol.com  

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Date: 23 Nov 2009
From: Melanie Clouser <melanie at mail.utexas.edu>
Subject:Dialect Literature

Dear Robert Ratcliffe,

Hello! Yes, there are such academic studies. The most famous study of Umm Kalthoum is of course Virginia Danielson's Voice of Egypt. For Bedouin poetry of Egypt, see Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod. 

For Yemeni dialect poetry (Humayni), see the recent study by Mark Wagner called Like Joseph in Beauty or the earlier study Peaks of Yemen I Summon by Steven Caton. 

I am researching Moroccan Malhoun (malHuun) poetry for my dissertation. The most authoritative book on this genre is Al-Qasida: Al-Zajal fil-Maghrib by Abbas al-Jirari. There is an Algerian book on the same genre called Aghaanii al-Qasba by Ahmed Amine Delai (bilingual book, French and Arabic). Also, Hasan Najmi's Ghinaa' al-3ayTa is a 2 volume study of Moroccan Aita poetry and March Schade-Poulsen's Men and Music in Algeria is a study of Algerian Rai.

For the musical aspect of colloquial Arabic poetry genres, see the Middle East volume of the Garland Encycopedia of Music.

These are the first sources that come to mind. You are welcome to share this response with others, and welcome to send other thoughts, questions, or resources my way.

Best Wishes,
Melanie A. Clouser
UT Austin
Arabic Studies

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