Visions of Salome

Hamberlin, Larry

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“…He also places the "exotic" augmented 2nd between the flat 6 and major 7th scale degrees, rather than the 5th and the flat 7th, as Hamberlin found in most "Salome" melodies. 110 Overall, though, the piece displays a more standard tonal trajectory than the maqām-directed development of the folk songs Maloof arranged for his Syrian-American audience. 111 "Armenian Maid" was clearly meant to appeal to a broad US audience, using the images and some of the musical language of the "Oriental" craze.…”

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“For Thee America! For Thee Syria?”: Alexander Maloof, Orientalist Music, and the Politics of the SyrianMahjar

Bothwell¹

2020

J Soc American Mus

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In 1894 Syrian émigré Alexander Maloof arrived in the United States to join the thriving community in New York's “Syrian Quarter.” Working first as a music instructor and pianist, Maloof found success as a bandleader, composer, arranger, and publisher, integrating Arabic and US popular music and light classical styles. He wrote and edited Arabic-language piano songbooks for the Arabophone communities in the United States, and ran the Maloof Records label, the “Oriental” division of the Gennett Company's “race records” enterprise. Drawing on Arabic-language discourse from around the Syrian mahjar (diaspora), this article uses Maloof's output to demonstrate music's role in the vibrant and contested political conversations taking place in Arabic around the world, from the homelands around Beirut and Damascus, to the initial Syrian settlements in Cairo and Paris, to the American colonies in Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and New York. Concluding with a discussion of the 1919 “American Maid” (composed under a pseudonym), I argue that a thorough understanding of the history of Orientalist popular music in the Americas requires a decentering of European American audiences in order to examine those questions animating the New York mahjar, most centrally the political fate of greater Syria.

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Section: Armenian Maidmentioning

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“For Thee America! For Thee Syria?”: Alexander Maloof, Orientalist Music, and the Politics of the SyrianMahjar

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“For Thee America! For Thee Syria?”: Alexander Maloof, Orientalist Music, and the Politics of the SyrianMahjar

“For Thee America! For Thee Syria?”: Alexander Maloof, Orientalist Music, and the Politics of the SyrianMahjar

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