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Qat, Conversation, and Song: A Musical View of Yemeni Social Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Philip D. Schuyler
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When I chew qāt, I must listen to music. If there is no musician in the place where I am chewing, after I finish I go out and sit in my car and listen to the radio or a cassette, just so I can hear some singing.

Yemeni Public Health Worker

You know, I really don't like to listen to Ṣancāni song very much … except when I'm chewing qāt.

Government Official

Type
Research Article
Information
Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 29 , 1997 , pp. 57 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 By The International Council for Traditional Music

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Footnotes

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The field research for this paper was carried out in the Yemen Arab Republic (now the Republic of Yemen) over a period of eighteen months between July 1985 and August 1987. Research was supported by grants from the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad program and the Career Development Program of Columbia University. Additional research and writing was carried out at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, under grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Science Research Council. Follow-up research in the summer of 1997 was supported by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

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