Simon Jargy
Simon Jargy is Chairman of the Arabic and Islamic Studies department at the Faculty of Arts, University of Geneva. Since the 1950’s, he has recorded a large amount of oral poetry and songs, mostly Bedouin, all over the Arab Near East. He has published La poésie populaire traditionnelle chantée au Proche-Orient arabe (Paris: Mouton, 1970), La musique arabe (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2nd ed., 1977; 3rd ed. forthcoming), and many articles dealing with ethnomusicology and Arab oral poetry.
Articles by Simon Jargy
Sung Poetry in the Oral Tradition of the Gulf Region and the Arabian Peninsula
Volume 4, Issue 1-2 (January, 1989)
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