Habib Toumi

For those interested.
Habib Touma was born in Nazareth, Palestine in 1934. Received a Ph.D.
in Musicology which he got in Berlin. He is also on the staff of the
International Institute for traditional Music. His book has been
translated to German, Italian, French and English. It received good
reviews in "ETHNOMUSICOLOGY" . Of note he has been a major contributor
to the recordings put forth by UNESCO. Some of very high regard. The
composer Steven Mosko has remarked that one of his recordings he
considers on the most important ethnic recording ever made. Consider the

quality of the remarks made against this man's life work . By what self
proclaimed authority?
very sad indeed

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
http://www.anaphoria.com

The Wandering Medicine Show
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RE:

> Habib Touma was born in Nazareth, Palestine in 1934. Received a Ph.D.
> in Musicology which he got in Berlin. He is also on the staff of the
> International Institute for traditional Music. His book has been

Someone quoted a book by Victor Sahab ''The Seven Greats of Arabic
Music''. Does anyone have full bibliographic details of this book
[publisher, date, isbn, ....]

Cheers, John

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In-Reply-To: <3C049981.6E78F283@anaphoria.com>
Kraig wrote:

> For those interested.
> Habib Touma was born in Nazareth, Palestine in 1934. Received a Ph.D.
> in Musicology which he got in Berlin. He is also on the staff of the
> International Institute for traditional Music. His book has been
> translated to German, Italian, French and English. It received good
> reviews in "ETHNOMUSICOLOGY" . Of note he has been a major contributor
> to the recordings put forth by UNESCO. Some of very high regard. The
> composer Steven Mosko has remarked that one of his recordings he
> considers on the most important ethnic recording ever made. Consider the
> quality of the remarks made against this man's life work . By what self
> proclaimed authority?

Sami Asmar, originally in Al-Jadid magazine. Here's the URL again:

<http://www.turath.org/Articles/BookRev.html>

(Says it comes with a CD. Why didn't I get that?)

This page <http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/othernews.html> gives Sami's
e-mail address as SAsmar@ucla.edu if you'd like to take the matter
further. That means he's the same Sami Asmar who's on this page:
<http://www.ess.ucla.edu/faculty/schubert/>. So he's a graduate student
in either Geophysics or Planetary Physics, maybe both.

Since you asked.

> very sad indeed

Why is it sad for somebody to have an opinion that differs from yours?

Graham