Soundtracks of Our Lives: Music-Making and Musicians in MENA Cinema
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No 30 (2023), Introduction
No 30 (2023)

Soundtracks of Our Lives: Music-Making and Musicians in MENA Cinema

Introduction
Published 31 October 2023
Shohini CHAUDHURI
University of Essex
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Keywords

Film music
musicians
soundtracks
Middle Eastern cinema
Arab cinema
Iranian cinema
MENA region

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CHAUDHURI, S. (2023). Soundtracks of Our Lives: Music-Making and Musicians in MENA Cinema. Regards , (30), 15-31. Retrieved from https://journals.usj.edu.lb/regards/article/view/868
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Abstract

This introduction to the special issue, “Soundtracks of Our Lives: Music-Making and Musicians in MENA Cinema”, outlines some of the reasons for lack of detailed consideration given to music in research on films from the region. It highlights the intervention that this special issue makes, offering a brief review of the existing scholarship on which it builds and seeks to fill gaps. Finally, it introduces the articles that form the body of the special issue.

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