Books and Articles related to Arab Music, Dance and Culture
Abraham, Sameer Y. and Nabeel Abraham. Arabs in the New World: Studies on Arab-
American Communities. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, Urban Studies Center,
1983.
AlZayer, Penni. Middle Eastern Dance. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
Boosahda, Elizabeth. Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant
Community. University of Texas Press, 2003.
Danielson, Virginia. The Voice of Egypt: Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian
Society in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Dardashti, Galeet. ?The Work of Her Hands, The Piyutt Craze: Popularization of Mizrahi
Religious Songs in the Israeli Public Sphere.? The Journal of Synagogue Music. Vol.
32. Cantors Assembly, Fall 2007.
Dodds, Jerrilynn. New York Masjid: The Mosques of New York City. Italy: Power House
Books, 2002.
Kapchan, Deborah. Gender on the Market: Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of
Tradition. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Kapchan, Deborah. Traveling Spirit Masters: Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the
Global Marketplace. Wesleyan, 2007.
Lornell, Kip and Anne Rasmussen. Musics of Multicultural America. New York: Schirmer
Books, 1997.
Naff, Aliza. Becoming American: Early Arab Immigrant Experience. Carbondale, IL: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1985.
Racy, A.J. Making Music in the Arab World: The Culture and Artistry of Tarab.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Rasmussen, Anne. ??An Evening in the Orient?: The Middle Eastern Nightclub in America.?
Asian Music, Vol. 23, No. 2. (Spring-Summer, 1992), pp. 63-88.
Shannon, Jonathan. Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria.
Wesleyan University Press, 2006.
Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Touma, Habib Hassan. The Music of the Arabs. Amadeus Press, 2003.