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Please see revised schedule below.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH
MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA MUSIC FORUM
Friday November 25th, 2011
Stewart House, Room ST274/5 (Stewart House is adjacent to Senate House)
Registration from 9.15am
9.45am - Welcome
Focus on Palestine
Session 1: 9.45am-11.30am
Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway)
Music's Necessary Complicity
Felicity Laurence (University of Newcastle)
Singing Lullabies in Nablus
11.30am tea/coffee
Session 2: 11.45 to 12.30pm
Yara El-Ghadban (University of the Witwatersrand)
Struggle Songs Without Words: Palestinian Instrumental Music Between The Two Intifadas
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch break
Session 3: 1.30 to 3pm
Screening of 'It's Not a Gun' (67 mins; Palestine, 2006 Pierre-Nicolas Durant et Hélèna Cotinier), followed by discussion session.
3pm Tea/Coffee
Session 4: 3.15pm - 5pm
Jacob Olley (SOAS)
Tracing Modal Development in Early Ottoman Music: The Case of Makam Saba
Carolyn Landau (King's College, London)
Western Symphony Orchestras, Creative Fusion Projects and Muslim Communities
in London: Heavenly Harmonies, Cultural Confusion or Political Propaganda?
SHORT BREAK
Session 4: 5.10-6.30pm
Khyam Allami (SOAS): Research presentation and Oud performance
London based Iraqi Oud player and SOAS Teaching Fellow Khyam Allami will present his Sound of Iraq project (http://www.soundofiraq.org), which aims to create a new National Sound Archive in Baghdad, Iraq. He will also discuss his ongoing research and involvement in the independent Middle Eastern music scene, followed by a live performance of his debut album "Resonance/Dissonance" in its entirety.
The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)
Advance booking is requested via Valerie James at [log in to unmask]; a contribution to costs of £10 is requested on the door. Attendance for students and the unwaged is free.
Tel: 020 7664 4865
www.music.sas.ac.uk
http://music.sas.ac.uk/research-groups/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum.html#c1448
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