Christian Poché

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Christian Poché
Born(1938-07-26)26 July 1938
Aleppo, Syria
Died3 December 2010(2010-12-03) (aged 72)
Paris, France
Known forScholarship on Middle Eastern and African music
Academic work
DisciplineMiddle Eastern and African music
Institutions

Christian Poché (26 July 1938 – 3 December 2010) was a French ethnomusicologist, music critic, radio producer who specialised in Middle Eastern and African music.

Biography

Poché was born the son of an

The World of Music magazine during the early 1970s.[1]

A former member of the

African traditional music styles, notably in encyclopedias such as the Encyclopédie de la musique, the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and the Garland Encyclopaedia of World Music. He was also part of the scientific committee of the Ocora and UNESCO record collections.[2][1] For several of his numerous editions of Near Eastern music, he was awarded the French Charles-Cros prize.[3]

Among others, he produced audio recordings of the liturgical music of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Historically spread across communities in Antioch, Tur 'Abdin, Urfa, Mardin in modern Turkey, as well as in Aleppo and Qamishli in modern Syria, this Oriental Orthodoc church uses the Syriac language, an Aramaic historical language similar to that spoken by Jesus Christ and the Apostles.[4]

A producer at Radio France, Poché presented regular programmes of world music such as the Vocabulaire des musiques traditionnelles (Vocabulary of Traditional Music). Another of his radio programmes was broadcast on France Vivace called Sanza, and subsequently renamed Zambra.[1]

Poché died on 3 December 2010 in Paris.[5][6]

Publications

  • Wright, Owen; Poché, Christian; Shiloah, Amnon (2001). "Arab music".
    ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. (subscription or UK public library membership
    required)

Translation

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Metason. "Christian Poché". ArtistInfo. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  2. ^ "UNESCO Collection Week 28: Sufi Ritual Music and Practice". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Christian Poché, The Soul of Arab Music (1938-2010) « AMAR Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research". Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Syrian Orthodox Church: Antioch Liturgy". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Christian Poché - Spectacles et Musiques du Monde". www.musiquesdumonde.fr. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Christian Poché, The Soul of Arab Music (1938-2010) « AMAR Foundation for Arab Music Archiving & Research". Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  7. JSTOR 40240648
    .

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External links

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