Dear all,

I'm delighted to inform you that we have just published the first article of our third volume of the open-access International Journal of Traditional Arts!

https://tradartsjournal.org/index.php/ijta/article/view/27

Title: Qur’anic Recitation Among Pittsburgh Egyptian Muslims: An Ethnographic Field Study

Author: Mariam Shalaby
University of Pittsburgh

ABSTRACT
The art of Qur’anic recitation is central to Egypt’s cultural and ethnic heritage. This study explores the role of Qur’anic recitation in the lives of immigrant and first-generation Pittsburgh Egyptian Muslims in 2016 and 2017. Through listening sessions and interviews, the research explores several questions, including: ‘Do generational differences exist in the role of Qur’anic recitation in Egyptian Americans’ lives?’ ‘What role does nostalgia play in the experience of Qur’anic recitation?’ ‘How do Egyptian Americans relate the Qur’an to music, and connect with its sound?’ and ‘How does Qur’anic recitation contribute to building community and identity in diaspora?’ In a time where many questions are asked about American Muslims and the role that Islamic traditions play in their lives, this research on the traditional art of Qur’anic recitation is pertinent and timely. Similar ethnographic studies have not been performed on Egyptians in the United States nor on the role of Qur’anic recitation in the lives of Muslims. As such, this article provides a groundbreaking perspective on what it means to recite the Qur’an as an Egyptian in the United States.

Please do consider publishing with us: gold open access; free to publish and read online; LOCKSS 3-way distributed backup; double-blind peer-review. See guide for submissions here: https://tradartsjournal.org/index.php/ijta/about/submissions 

all the best,


Simon McKerrell (Co-Editor, International Journal of Traditional Arts)

www.tradartsjournal.org


Editors:
Simon Keegan-Phipps (University of Sheffield)
Simon McKerrell (Newcastle University)



Focus and Scope
The International Journal of Traditional Arts is an international, peer-reviewed gold open access journal that promotes a broad-ranging understanding of the relevance of traditional arts in contemporary social life. The journal publishes leading and robust scholarship on traditional arts from around the world with a focus on the contemporary policy and practice of traditional music, dance, drama, oral narrative and crafts. We define ‘traditional arts’ as artistic and creative practices that function as a marker of identity for a particular cultural group and that have grown out of their oral tradition or that have been newly created using characteristics derived from oral tradition. We are interested in publishing high quality scholarship from ethnomusicology, cultural sociology, anthropology, ethnology, ethnochoreology, cultural policy, folklore, musicology, cultural studies, cultural economics, heritage and tourism studies that focuses upon contemporary policy and practice in the traditional arts.



International Advisory Panel

Professor Richard MacKinnon, Cape Breton University, Canada., Canada

Associate Professor Maria E. Mendonça, Kenyon College, USA., United States

Dr Anna Morcom, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK., United Kingdom

Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot Watt University, UK., United Kingdom

Dr John Morgan O'Connell, Cardiff University, UK., United Kingdom

Dr Colin Quigley, University of Limerick, Ireland., Ireland

Dr Neelam Raina, Middlesex University London, UK., United Kingdom

Professor Doctor Britta Sweers, University of Bern, Switzerland., Switzerland

Associate Professor David McDonald, Indiana University Bloomington, USA., United States

Dr Daithí Kearney, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland., Ireland

Professor Egil Bakka, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Dr Caroline Bithell, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Mr Gerard Corsane, Newcastle University, UK., United Kingdom

Professor Naila Ceribašić, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb., Croatia

Professor Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Institute of Ethnomusicology, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Dr Klisala Harrison, University of Helsinki, Finland., Finland

Associate Professor Gediminas Karoblis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Professor Gary West, University of Edinburgh, UK, United Kingdom

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