Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ciucci, Alessandra
Titre(s) : The voice of the rural [Texte imprimé] : music, poetry, and masculinity among migrant Moroccan men in Umbria / Alessandra Ciucci
Publication : Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022
Description matérielle : xii, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Collection : Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Lien à la collection : Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index
"If you Google Umbria, you'll likely see picturesque rolling hills and medieval villages
perched on them. But in The Voice of the Rural, ethnomusicologist Alessandra Ciucci
introduces us to the Moroccan migrant workers that labor in the province's Alta Valle
del Tevere region, which has been transformed by agrobusiness. These migrants working
in Umbria's tobacco fields and on its construction sites have been coming to the region
for decades, and while some eventually save enough money to buy some land and build
a house back home, most are only able to scrape together what little they can from
season to season. Marginalized in Italy and far from their homes, these men turn to
Moroccan traditions of music and poetry that romanticize the Moroccan countryside
they have left, l-'arubiya, or the rural. Ciucci's ethnography is a rich analysis
of l-'arubiya that unpacks how these men share the music and sound of the rural to
create a culture of belonging in a foreign and inhospitable nation, gathering in groups
to listen to recordings of the musical style and creating community that springs from
the very particular Moroccan narratives and identity depicted in the music. The poetry
conjures up local images, history, and tradition, evoking a personhood that allows
these men to momentarily preserve a particular form of manhood inaccessible to them
in Italian culture. In Italy, these men are perceived as threatening and sexually
violent. But the sound of l-'arubiya signifies a different kind of masculinity, of
what it means to be a "real man", someone virtuous, generous, and strong both physically
and morally. Through close fieldwork with migrant men and careful analysis of the
lives they live through music, Ciucci uncovers an important social dimension of Europe's
evolving migration crisis: how migrants preserve a sense of self and of home in an
inhospitable country, allowing them to endure in the face of incredible hardship"
Sujet(s) : Musique -- Maroc
Musique -- Ombrie (Italie)
Marocains -- Ombrie (Italie)
Travailleurs étrangers marocains -- Ombrie (Italie)
Marocains -- Identité collective -- Ombrie (Italie)
Masculinité -- Dans la musique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226816760. - ISBN 0226816761. - ISBN 9780226818696. - ISBN 0226818691. -
ISBN 9780226818689 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47057145d
Notice n° :
FRBNF47057145
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; The engendering and the othering of l'ʻarubi and l-ʻarubiya in Morocco
; The voyage : Voicing l-ʻarubiya in the crossing ; Spectral guests, marocchini,
and "real men" ; Long (ḥnin), intimacy (rasi rase̳k), and belonging (intima) : Voicing
l-ʻarubiya ; Conclusion : Returns.
