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Mediterranean and North African Musicologist

About Ramon Sola

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?”
  • “What role did Marseille’s dockworkers’ unions play in shaping Algerian raï’s early vocal timbre?”
  • “Can you compare the qanun’s tuning evolution in Tripoli vs. Alexandria between 1948, 1973?”
  • “How do Amazigh women in the Rif encode land-rights disputes in ahwash call-and-response phrasing?”

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What primary sources does Ramon Sola consider most underutilized in Mediterranean musicology?
He prioritizes non-notated materials: repair logs from instrument makers in Tangier’s Souk el-Fassi, shipping manifests listing gramophone records imported into Benghazi before 1935, and handwritten lyric notebooks confiscated during French surveillance of Oran’s cabarets in the 1950s. These reveal sonic priorities absent from official archives, like the consistent omission of drone instruments in police reports, suggesting their perceived political neutrality.
Does Ramon Sola work with living musicians or focus on historical reconstruction?
He collaborates exclusively with intergenerational ensembles, such as the Tlemcen oud trio where grandfather, father, and daughter each learned the same piece from different teachers across three decades. His method treats their divergent ornamentations not as errors but as palimpsests of shifting pedagogical authority, documented via synchronized video, audio, and gesture notation.
How does Ramon Sola define 'cultural exchange' in his research?
He rejects reciprocity models. Instead, he documents asymmetrical sonic borrowing, like how Valencian cobla bands adopted the Gharnati violin bowing technique not for aesthetic reasons, but because Franco-era import bans forced them to restring Catalan violins with gut strings calibrated to North African tension standards.
What controversy surrounded his 2021 paper on Andalusian muwashshah transmission?
He argued that the 'classical' Granada repertoire taught in Rabat conservatories was largely reconstructed from 1930s Cairo Radio broadcasts, not medieval manuscripts, prompting backlash from heritage institutions. His evidence included broadcast logs showing 47 repetitions of one muwashshah over 18 months, correlating with its sudden appearance in Moroccan curricula by 1952.
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