La música andalusí dentro de un marco afroasiático: Una reconsideración sobre la organología y la circulación cultural

Abstract

Andalusian music is based on the development of a poetic and musical system of creating songs known as the nuba, which has undergone a process of evolution since its origins in the ninth century on the Iberian Peninsula. Following the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, Andalusian music also suffered exile to several North African countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya—up until the present day. Through an approach to organology from a historical prism, this article reconsiders the cultural circulation of several musical instruments of al-Andalus over the course of more than a millennium, to contemporary times, in an Afro-Asian context. We emphasize the importance of organology for the study of the instruments not only as tangible objects but also as bearers of a living and revealing history, from both musicological and interdisciplinary perspectives. This article offers three topics of study: the historical aspect of Andalusian music on the Iberian Peninsula and its cultural circulation within an Afro-Asian framework; the continuity of Andalusian music in the Maghreb; and its organological relationships within an Afro-Asian framework.