Bibliography


Virginia Louise Danielsson:

Shaping tradition in Arabic song: The career and repertory of Umm Kulthum. Univerity of Illinois, 1991 (Ph.D. thesis, contains a listing of the known repertoire of Om Kalsoum )

The Voice of Egypt : Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song, and Egyptian Society in the Twentieth Century.(Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology), University of Chicago Press.(Publication date: October 1, 1997) ISBN: 0226136116

1987 The Qur'an and the Qasidah: aspects of the popularity of the repertory sung by Umm Kulthum, "Asian Music", XIX-1, 26-45.

Frederic Lagrange

Musiciens et poetes en Egypte au temps de la Nahda. Doctorat Nouveu régime. 94/PA08/0978 . Lille-Theses, Universite de Lille III. ISSN 0294-1767

Gabriele Braune

Umm Kulthum, Ein Zeitalter der Musik in Aegypten, Die moderne aegyptische Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt/Berlin/New York ...: Lang 1994, ISBN 3-631-47145-9.

Ysabel Saïah:

Oum Kalsoum - L'étoile de l'Orient , (contains a discography by Dr. Youssef Shawki)

Ali Jihad Racy:

Musical Change and Commercial Recording in Egypt, 1904-1932. Ph. D (A very informative work on the recording industry)

Record industry and Egyptian traditional music: 1904-1932, "Ethnomusicology", XX-1, 23-48. 1976

Musical aestethics in present day Cairo, "Ethnomusicology", XXVI-3, 391-406.1982

Music and dance in Lebanese folk proverbs, "Asian Music", XVII-1, 83-97.1985

Words and music in Beirut: a study of attitudes, "Ethnomusicology", 416-427. 1986

Lars Fredriksson:

Orientens stjärna - Oum Kalsoum. Re:Orient - 1997 pp. 14-17. (An article in swedish for the Re:Orient festival in Stockholm june 12-15 1997.)


Books in Arabic:


    Khaliil al-Misri/Mahmuud Kaamil: " Umm Kulthuum : al-nuSuuS al-kaamila li-gamii3 al-aghaani" (al-lagna al-muusiqiyya al-3ulya, 1979).

    Victor Sahhab's "al-sab3a al-kibaar" (daar al-3ilm lil-malayiin, 1987)

    'Awad, Mahmud: '1987 Umm Kulthum allati la ya'rifuha ahad' (Umm Kulthum che nessuno conosce), al Qahira, Mu'assasa Akhbar al Yom.

    Hefny, Ratiba el-: 'Umm Kalthoum: Mu'agizat il-ghina il-'arabi', Cairo 1994

    NA: 'Umm Kalthoum: hayat wa'aghani kawkab ilsharq', Beirut ND

    Mégally, Samir: 'L'Égypte Chantée: Oum Kalthoum', Paris 1994

    Fu'ad, Dr Ni'mat Ahmad: 'Umm Kalthoum wa'asr min al-fann', Cairo 1976

    Fu'ad, Ni'mat A.: 'Umm Kulthum wa 'Asr min al Fann (Umm Kulthum e un secolo d'arte), al Qahira, al Hayat ul Masriyat ul 'Amma lil Kitab.1983

    Marini, Abu Bakr al-: 'Umm Kalthoum, Mu'agizat Al-Qarn Al-'ashriin', Casablanca 1975

    Hayat wa Aghani Kawkab ish Sharq, (Vita e Canti della Stella d'Oriente, Umm Kulthum) 1988 Beirut, Maktabat ul Hayat lil Tiba'a wa al Nashr.

See also Lars Fredriksson's bibliography
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