Ziriab – Arabic Music in the Czech Republic












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            * Zita Skořepová Honzlová
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            Abstrakt

            With its four musicians of Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi origin, Ziriab is the only and very 
            the Czech Republic whose members declare their aim to be to perform “original” Arabic musi
            “original” Arabic music is a concept shared by the group, as has been articulated by the m

            intentions have been expressed in relation to the character of the repertoire and its pres
            is possible to depict four categories of performance – each one of a different context and
            The musicians’ choice of the repertoire as well as their behavior during the concert, then

            aspects at each kind of performance. The founding members of the ensemble came from Syria 
            Czechoslovakia as exchange-program students in the ’80s and finally decided to stay in Pra

            residents. They mastered the Czech language and have fully integrated into the local socie
            the other two musicians from Lebanon and Iraq who joined the ensemble a few years later. Z
            opinions reveal the fact that their hobby of “dealing with Arabic music” arose during thei

            of uninterrupted stay in the Czech Republic. As young men still living in their homeland, 
            performed in public or studied music with a mentor’s guidance. This paper thus outlines sp
            of the relationship between their long-term stay in a foreign country (and culture) and a 

            music somehow related to the musicians’ – in this case ethnic and secular – identity.

            Klíčová slova

            ethnomusicology; Arab minority music in the Czech Republic; music as self-representation

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