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Volume 15 - October 1996

Contents

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Middle Eight

Essay Reviews

Middle Eight

Articles

  • ‘The morning of freedom rose up’: Kurdish popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival

  • Stephen Blum, Amir Hassanpour
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 November 2008, pp. 325-343

  • In the final scene of Harold Pinter's play Mountain Language (1988), a guard informs the prisoners that they are now permitted to speak in their own language, at least ‘until further notice’. The guard is an agent of an unnamed state that pursues a policy of linguicide, summarised in an earlier scene by an officer who tells prisoners that ‘Your language no longer exists’. In 1993 the Kurdish Tiyatora Botan (based in Cologne) began to present Pinter's play to audiences of immigrants from Turkey, where Kurds were long called ‘mountain Turks’ (daǧli Türkler) by the government.

Middle Eight

Essay Reviews

Articles

  • Theory and practice at the ‘Arabic org’: digital technology in contemporary Arab music performance

  • Anne K. Rasmussen
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 November 2008, pp. 345-365

  • The synthesizer is ubiquitous on the Arab–American musical scene. Heard at every party, and on every recording, the synthesizer sings the lingua franca of international popular music. While the facade and the body of the synthesizer consist of neutral, slick, black plastic and metal technology, the soul of the instrument, when played by Arab–American musicians, is capable of a completely indigenous, if synthetic, musical idiom. In this article I draw on my experience of six performers of the Arabic ‘org’, commonly known today as ‘keyboards’, to present a sketch of a modern musical tradition.

Middle Eight

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Middle Eight

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Front matter

  • PMU volume 15 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    11 November 2008, pp. f1-f3
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