What impact did European colonialism of the 18th and 19th centuries, extending well into the twentieth century have on Arab music?
What will be an ideal response?
• ". . . tradition was left on its own, to wax and wane according to circumstance."
• Europeans studied and documented Arab musical practices (e.g., Napoleon Bonaparte sent a team of researchers to Egypt, among them M. Villoteau who included plates of musical instruments and an account of musical life there in his Description de L'Egypt [1823].)
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