Talk:Music of Sudan/Archive 1

Archive 1

Enlarged and updated version of this article

Hi, - during the last few weeks, I have considerably enlarged and updated the article on Music in Sudan. Since South Sudan became an indepentent state and has its own article, I deleted the former information on music in South Sudan and included a link to the Main article: Culture of South Sudan. Also, I tried to break the considerable amount of historic information into separate subsections. Finally, I added a paragraph on popular music of the 21st century and rewrote the section on reggae, hip hop and rap. In order for readers to find more information in online ressources, I have included many links. And there are now some accompanying pictures, too. As always, I would appreciate any helpful comments about the content, length and style of the article. --Munfarid1 12:35, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Sources in Arabic about music of Sudan, part one

Apart from the sources cited in the Arabic version of this article, there are other Sudanese publications and academic studies. For people with access to libraries like the Library of Congress and knowledge of Arabic, I have added the three-volume study on The History of Singing and Music in Sudan, 2005, at the end of Further reading. Limited by the scope and rules of the English Wikipedia, I found my research on this topic sometimes limited by the scarcity of sources in English. This constitutes also a cultural bias, as non-Sudanese writers often express their knowledge limited to English sources that talk about a country like Sudan based on their information and cultural point of view. In my view, it would be useful, if scholars published more detailed studies about the limitations and bias of the Western "view of the other" in English. - Of course, there is the seminal book Orientalism (book) by Edward Said and other publications following the same discourse. But for the Sudan, there seems to be a lack of such studies. Munfarid1 (talk) 06:35, 10 April 2021 (UTC)