ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes hybrid musical practices among European converts to Islam in contemporary Granada, focusing on music’s role in expressing attachment to the city’s historical Muslim communities. Centering interviews with two convert musicians, the author sets these performances of historical memory against the background of institutional, financial, and theological connections to international Sufi orders, the Moroccan crown, and patrons in the Gulf States. Coalescing in rural Islamic communities apart from Granada’s Catholic majority, these transnational contacts point future research beyond the city’s urban center. Citing convert musicians’ frequent collaborations with Muslim economic migrants from West Africa and the Maghreb, the author concludes by suggesting that musical expressions and experiences of Islam in Granada are best understood within an intersectional, intersubjective framework: In particular, under the rubric of tandem, entangled citations of the city’s Moorish past.
