A fundadora do INET-md, Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, assina o capítulo “From Tarab to Turath: Fifty Years of Arab Music Heritage in Egypt”, incluído no livro ṬARAB: Music, Ecstasy, Emotion, and Performance (Texas University Press, 2025), coeditado por Michael Frishkopf, Scott Marcus e Dwight Reynolds.
Resumo (apenas em inglês):
This chapter proposes a retrospective on the heritagization of Arab music in post-colonial Cairo across a period of more than fifty years. I discuss diverse perspectives on what constitutes Arab music heritage (turāth), the cultural policies that framed the heritagization of Arab music, the models configured for its representation, the ideologies and discourses on which these were grounded, and the agency of key musicians in the production of heritage. I argue that the initial model for the heritagization of Arab music, established through government-sponsored ensembles, censored the musical and performative ingredients and ambiance that induce ṭarab and attempted to regulate musicians and audience behavior by imposing adherence to a written musical text, and a repertoire of sounds, gestures and modes of response to music performance that replicate the behavior norms of Western “art” music concerts.