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Not often does such tremendously needed, well-grounded scholarship come to an academic and general readership...This is a well-researched, well-rounded investigation that is chock full of examples that will benefit students and scholars of wide-ranging disciplines.

-Kenneth S. Habib, PhD

Music Library Association,Notes,

Vol.72(4), pp.748-751

 

BKFS BOOK PRIZE HONORABLE MENTION

[Dr. Lisa's book] is an ambitious, well-researched

and ground-breaking survey. The scope of the work is vast, the result of a rich ethnography which creates an impressive distillation of the results of many years of study. It also constitutes a significant documentation of an area hitherto inadequately researched, providing us with a major scholarly contribution to the field.

- Professor Yasir Suleiman, Nov. 2016

University of Cambridge, Department of Middle Eastern Studies

 Prizes are judged by leading faculty at the University of Cambridge and by members of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, publisher of the distinguished British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. http://www.bkfsprize.co.uk/

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Urkevich has written an excellent introduction to music and traditions in various regions of the Arabian Peninsula…Useful for those in anthropology as well as musicology, the book serves as a contextual research model for aspiring ethnomusicologists.

-K.W. Mukuna, Choice Reviews, Vol. 53 (3), 2015

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[Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula]  is a fine ethnomusical collection and a welcome contribution to the scholarship of the Middle East, in general, and the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf societies, in particular.

-  El-Sayed El-Aswad, PhD (United Arab Emirates University)

Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online

 

The rich and varied music and folk-dance traditions of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar are little known outside the eastern peninsular region itself. This pioneering and detailed guidebook to those arts is appropriate for both general readers and specialists... Included are several accounts of women’s wedding traditions, as well as a cd with 31 excellent audio examples... For anyone seeking a greater understanding of the traditional folk arts of the Arabian Peninsula, including those performed annually at the Saudi Janadriyah festival, this will also be a useful guide.

- Kay Hardy Campbell, Aramco World Magazine 

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