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    Tarab
    Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance

    Michael Frishkopf (Edited by), Scott Marcus (Edited by), Dwight Reynolds (Edited by)

    9781477331439, University of Texas Press

    Hardback, published 22 July 2025

    296 pages, 25 b&w photos
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.626 kg

    "The field of ethnomusicology is changing, and this volume shows us how by engaging with historical, comparative, music psychological, popular music, and sound studies in addition to  other fields. The editors and authors sum up this entire field of study well, but also show that same field in motion. This volume is nothing short of a landmark moment in ethnomusicology." - Martin Stokes, King's College, London, author of Music and Citizenship

    In Arab culture, at the ineffable point where music meets emotion, lies ṭarab. Often glossed as the ecstasy experienced and expressed when performing or listening to singing, instrumental works, and recitations of poetry, ṭarab is both a practice and an orienting concept central to musical aesthetics and spirituality characteristic of Middle Eastern cultures.

    Gathering fifteen essays by scholars of music, affect, literature, religion, and education, Ṭarab extends the study of ṭarab historically, geographically, and sociologically. Historical essays explore ṭarab’s role in the medieval Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. Turning to the modern era, authors examine ṭarab and related concepts in Egypt, Albania, and Iraq, and among Turkish Roma and Lebanese Maronite Christians. The contributors also address contemporary practitioners and the intersections of ṭarab and maqām, belly dancing, music streaming, and university music ensembles. Situating this unique cultural concept in a global context, these studies enrich the story of ṭarab and provide new insight into music’s powerful emotional appeal.

    • A Note on Transliteration
    • List of Illustrations
    • An Introduction to Ṭ
      arab: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance (Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus, and Dwight F. Reynolds)
    • 1. Ṭ
      arab in Extremis in Medieval Arabic Sources (Dwight F. Reynolds)
    • 2. The Other Ṭ
      arab (George Dmitri Sawa)
    • 3. Judeo-Sufi Musical Intersections (Edwin Seroussi)
    • 4. A Tale of Two Ṭ
      arabs: Intercultural Music in the Late Ottoman Empire (John O’
      Connell)
    • 5. Sayyid Darwish and Ṭ
      arab (Virginia Danielson)
    • 6. From Ṭ
      arab to Turā
      th: Fifty Years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt (Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco)
    • 7. Ṭ
      arab in the Grooves: Reconsidering a Transitional Moment in the Arab American Arts Economy (Anne K. Rasmussen)
    • 8. The Two Tenors: The Ṭ
      arab Artistry of Wadih El Safi and Sabah Fakhri (Sami W. Asmar)
    • 9. The Sufi Source of Ṭ
      arab (Michael Frishkopf)
    • 10. From Lament to Prayer: Music and Emotional Shifts in the Funeral Ritual of the Maronite Christians in Lebanon (Guilnard Moufarrej)
    • 11. Heroism, Desire, Ecstasy: Qamili i VogË
      l, Kosova Albanian Urban Song, and the Cultivation of Elation (Jane C. Sugarman)
    • 12. Sweaty Transcendence and Affect: The Labor of Musical Ecstasy (Sonia Tamar Seeman)
    • 13. Teaching Ṭ
      arab: Embodied Interpersonal Learning in University Ensembles (Anne Elise Thomas)
    • 14. Songs of the Ṭ
      arab Repertoire: Sites for Understandings Beyond Affect (Scott Marcus)
    • 15. Curating Tarab on Music Streaming Services: The Cultural Politics of Localization on Spotify, Anghami, and Deezer (Darci Sprengel)
    • Contributors
    • Index

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