Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads

<p><em>Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices</em> explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters bringing the diverse cultures of Europe Africa and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music’s multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey Jerusalem these communities sing play dance listen and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads.</p>