عنوان

«Venez, demandez à mon cœur»: voix, signification et affect parmi les musiciens de chaâbi algériens à Paris

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TL50821

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

«Venez, demandez à mon cœur»: voix, signification et affect parmi les musiciens de chaâbi algériens à Paris

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Orr, Christopher C.

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Jackson, Margaret R.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Florida State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

Text of Note

205 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

The Florida State University

Text preceding or following the note

2019

Text of Note

In this dissertation I explore performances of Algerian sha'bī music in Paris as affectively powerful experiences for the Algerian migrant community. Literally meaning "popular," sha'bī developed as a modernized form of colloquial sung poetry among the working class of mid-twentieth century Algiers and has remained a significant mode of cultural expression in the twenty-first century. By comparing a range of formal and informal contexts of performance, I consider the interdependency of place and intimacy in the expression of authority, morality, ecstasy, tradition, and communal belonging in sha'bī praxis. I eschew dyadic constructions of home and exile and instead explore the idea of place in multiple guises, both real and imagined, as it either constrains or enables shared ecstatic experience among listeners. During successful sha'bī performances, participants transform physical spaces into places of intimacy by entraining with one another's emotional states. This state of shared heightened emotion is vested in the role of the shaykh, who moves the audience through skillful execution of sha'bī's musical conventions and his demonstration of textual knowledge through a convincing interpretation of the musical poetry. Central to this experience is the voice of the shaykh, which imbues the text with affective power and establishes the singer as the embodiment of tradition. As evoked metaphorically in the sung refrain of a well-known song, "Come, ask my heart to share with you its news and you'll see that you own it and you know what you've done to it," the singer invites the audience into a shared ritual of ecstatic, musical interaction in which bodily co-presence and emotional entrainment bring listeners together in collective effervescence. Perhaps most importantly, singers are imbued with moral virtues by adoring devotees, which allows them to shape the emotional experiences of individual performances. Informed by interviews and participant observations, I examine how the sha'bī singer comes to embody the weight of tradition and joins with musicians and audiences to facilitate intimacy across a range of Parisian environments. In the process, I seek to illuminate why sha'bī continues to be such a dynamic, meaningful mode of cultural expression for France's Algerian diasporic community.

Subject Term

Cultural anthropology

Subject Term

Music history

Subject Term

North African studies

Orr, Christopher C.

Jackson, Margaret R.

The Florida State University

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[Thesis]

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