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Mediterranean and North African Musicologist
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In 2017, Ramon Sola spent six months living in a Sidi Bou Said courtyard recording the microtonal shifts in Tunisian ma'luf performances, only to discover that the 'authentic' tuning used by elder musicians diverged sharply from Ottoman-era manuscripts by precisely 14 cents in the bayati tetrachord. That discrepancy became the hinge of his 2022 monograph, which reframed Maghrebi musical transmission not as preservation but as deliberate, generational recalibration in response to port-city trade routes, colonial radio bandwidth limits, and post-independence state archives. He doesn’t study instruments or genres in isolation; he maps how the physical wear on a nay’s finger holes correlates with migration patterns of Andalusian refugees across Algiers, Fez, and Palermo, and how that wear subtly reshapes pitch stability over decades. His fieldwork includes spectral analysis of cassette tapes salvaged from Casablanca flea markets, cross-referenced with oral histories from women who ran home-based music copying networks under Morocco’s 1970s copyright restrictions.
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- “How did Maltese għana singers adapt Tunisian mizān rhythms after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War?”
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- “Can you compare the qanun’s tuning evolution in Tripoli vs. Alexandria between 1948–1973?”
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