The Yemeni Sources of Poetry and Music in the Sawt of the Gulf: The Role of the Arabian Diaspora in India
Résumé
Since several years, research began to care for the historical relations between the music of the Gulf and the Yemeni music. Before all, we must recall the historical context of the Arabic and Yemenite contacts which, paradoxically, occurred through diaspora in India at least since the 16th century: soldiers, merchants and learned people who were at the service of the Moghul dynasty. This migration favoured contacts between Arabs from the whole Peninsula, including Yemen, Hijaz and the Gulf. For the lyrics, we can trace these relations back to the beginnings of the spreading of humaynî poetry, a half dialectal literary genre, in the Arab diaspora in India, at least between the 17th and 19th century mainly at hands of Hadramis. As much as we can document the music which was played on this poetry during the same period, we find quite a few Hadrami musicians who lived and worked in India or travelled to it or to the Gulf, and spread there the qanbûs or so called “Yemeni lute”. We can also partly document the return of this instrument to the Gulf and in the Sawt, probably during the 19th century, in the cities of Kuwait and Manama. For the music, it is difficult to be as precise as for the poetry, but we can make the hypothesis that music and poetry, at certain times, circulated in concomitant ways, even if it was with some temporal or spatial gaps. My purpose here is to gather some historical and social facts which can explain or clarify these unexpected early contacts between the Yemeni music and the Gulf.
Fichier principal
The Yemeni Sources of the Sawt_The Arabian Diaspora in India.pdf ( 226.06 Ko
)
Télécharger
Origine :
Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...