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On Shared Musical Traditions: The Tunisian–Libyan Maluf Slam Collaborative
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2025
Abstract
The Tunisian–Libyan Maluf Slam Collaborative was a multinational group of musicians, poets, artists, educators, journalists, and stakeholders that created a series of music concerts featuring Tunisian and Libyan maluf in July 2019. Maluf is considered cultural heritage across eastern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya and manifests with great variety between and inside each nation-state. Sourced from ethnography in Libya (2014) and Tunisia (2018–2019), this article documents the collaborative’s work, queries the dynamics of transnational traditions, and analyses musical modes and histories of Sufism in order to explain similarities and differences within performances of maluf today.
خلاصة
كانت فرقة مالوف صلام التعاونية التونسية والليبية عبارة عن مجموعة متعددة الجنسيات من الموسيقيين والشعراء والفنانين والمعلمين والصحفيين وأصحاب المصلحة الذين أنشأوا سلسلة من الحفلات الموسيقية التي تضم المالوف التونسي والليبي في يوليو 2019 ويعتبر المالوف تراثًا ثقافيًا عبر شرق الجزائر وتونس وليبيا ويتجلى بتنوع كبير في هذه الدول وبينها. هذا المقال مأخوذ من الإثنوغرافيا في ليبيا (2014) وتونس (2018-2019) وهو يوثق العمل التعاوني ويستفسر عن ديناميكيات التقاليد العابرة للحدود الوطنية ويحلل الطبوع (او المقامات) الموسيقية وتواريخ التصوف لتفسير التشابهات والاختلاف في أداءات المالوف اليوم.
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