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name: Ali Tal
This well written book (Wagner: The Rebel Tune) by Saladin Boustany, is a thought-busting effort on Wagner’s music in 19th century at the time of the emerging German national pride that left me cold. Maybe it was the lauding tribute of Mr Boustanyn’s to the great man’s myth-making talents both in words and music that I had an issue with. I must admit I was quite surprised by the author’s conniving assertion that Western Music (of course including that of rowdy Wagner) is almost the only universal musical heritage and therefore he eagerly ascertains to his Arab readers to applaud Wagner’s compositions and that we ought to take pleasures in his music and literature. It is quite hard for me to see how such xenophobic and complex character could be an inspiration to our deeply original musical heritage. It is sadly true that some of modern Arab artists are careering like headless chickens in imitating the flair and aptitude of Western art that as a result we are slowly but surly beginning to lose the identity of our own art.