Ethan Katz the Jewish Quarterly Review Vol 102 No 2 (Spring 2012) Pp 256-287
| The history of Northward Africa is usually framed by the period of French colonialism and the era of independent nations that followed. But what happens if we let an object like the 78 rpm record practice the work of periodization? In this episode, nosotros talk to Christopher Silverish about the unique vantage signal that gramophone records offer on the emergence of national culture in the Maghreb during the first half of the 20th century. We will explore the work of artists whose lives straddled Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco besides as the colonial metropoles, and we volition highlight the role of North African Jewish singers, musicians, producers, and promoters in the development of the region's music industry.
The history of Due north Africa is usually framed by the period of French colonialism and the era of independent nations that followed. But what happens if we let an object similar the 78 rpm record do the work of periodization? In this episode, we talk to Christopher Silver about the unique vantage betoken that gramophone records offer on the emergence of national civilization in the Maghreb during the first one-half of the 20th century. Nosotros will explore the work of artists whose lives straddled Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco equally well as the colonial metropoles, and we will highlight the function of North African Jewish singers, musicians, producers, and promoters in the development of the region's music industry.
For more than music and information about North African recording artists of the gramophone era, visit Christopher Silver'south website Gharamophone.
Contributor Bios
Credits
Episode No. 498
Release Date: 22 March 2021
Recording Location: Montreal / Charlottesville, VA
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Boosted thanks to Sam Dolbee, Aslıhan Gürbüzel, and Alma Heckman
For more music and data about North African recording artists of the gramophone era, visit Christopher Silver's website Gharamophone.
Images and bibliography courtesy of Christopher Silver
Further Listening
 | Richard Breaux | 494 ii/23/21 | Musical Archives of the Midwest Mahjar |
 | Panayotis League | 463 5/iii/20 | The Journeys of Ottoman Greek Music |
 | Sarah Abrevaya Stein | 434 eleven/20/xix | Family Papers and Ottoman Jewish Life Afterward Empire |
 | Evyn Lê Espiritu, Margaux Fitoussi, & Kais Khimji | 332 9/x/17 | History, Diaspora, and Politics |
 | Jonathan Wyrtzen | 269 9/xv/16 | Colonialism and the Politics of Identity in Morocco |
 | Jennifer Johnson | 277 10/31/sixteen | Decolonization, Health Intendance, and Humanitarianism in Algeria |
 | Pierre Daum | 302 3/ii/17 | Les harkis restés en Algérie: tabou et non-dits |
Track List
Images
Samy Elmaghribi's hit nationalist canticle, "Allah, Ouatani oua-Soultani," released on his ain Samyphone characterization in 1956. Personal drove of Silver.
Habiba Messika on the front cover of L'Éclaireur du dimanche, 3 February 1929. Courtesy Gallica-BnF.
Promotional bookmark for Salim Halali's Le Coq d'Or cabaret in Casablanca, late 1950s. Personal collection of Silvery.
Select Bibliography
Aomar Boum, Memories of Absenteeism: How Muslims Think Jews in Morocco (Stanford Academy Press, 2013).
Ruth F. Davis, Maʻlūf: Reflections on the Arab Andalusian Music of Tunisia (Scarecrow Press, 2004).
Michael Denning, Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution (Verso, 2015).
Dynamic Jewish-Muslim Interactions in Operation Art, 1920-2020, eds., Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince (Liverpool University Press, 2020).
Jonathan Glasser, The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban N Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Alma Rachel Heckman, The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Printing, 2020).
Ethan Katz, "Did the Paris Mosque Save Jews? A Mystery and Its Memory," The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 102, No. 2 (Spring 2012), 256-287.
Hadj Miliani, "Crosscurrents: Trajectories of Algerian Jewish Artists and Men of Culture since the End of the Nineteenth Century," Jewish Culture and Society in N Africa, eds. Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter (Indiana University Press, 2010), 177-187.
Rebecca P. Scales, "Subversive Sound: Transnational Radio, Arabic Recordings, and the Dangers of Listening in French Colonial Algeria, 1934–1939," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2010, 52(2): 384–417.
Christopher Silverish, "The Sounds of Nationalism: Music, Moroccanism, and the Making of Samy Elmaghribi," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2020, vol. 52, no. 1: 23-47.
Source: https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/03/gharamophone.html
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