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Published by Wesleyan University Press,

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© 2006 by Jonathan Holt Shannon

Unless otherwise indicated, photographs © 2006 by Jonathan Holt Shannon

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First Wesleyan paperback 2009

Printed in the United States of America

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ISBN for the paperback edition: 978–0–8195–6944–8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shannon, Jonathan Holt.

Among the jasmine trees : music and modernity in

contemporary Syria / Jonathan Holt Shannon.

p. cm. — (Music/culture)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ),

and index.

ISBN-13: 978–0-8195–6798–7 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0–8195–6798–1 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Music—Social aspects—Syria.

2. Music—Syria—21st century—Philosophy and aesthetics.

3. Syria—Social life and customs—21st century.

I. Title. II. Series.

ML3795.S415 2006

780.95691—dc22 2005028912

The publisher gratefully acknowledges assistance from the

Manfred Bukofzer Publication Endowment Fund of the

American Musicological Society.

Wesleyan University Press is member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper

used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.