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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH
With the support of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the Centre for Music Studies, City University London
Senate House, room G22/26.
IMR MIDDLE EAST, SOUTH, AND CENTRAL ASIA FORUM
Thursday December 6th 2012
Registration from 9.15am
9.40am - Welcome
Session 1: 9.45-11.15am
Simone Tarsitani (Durham University)
Musical and linguistic variations of Islamic panegyrics in eastern Ethiopia
Miriam Gazzah (University of Amsterdam)
Dutch-Moroccans making music: Popular reconfigurations of ethics and aesthetics
11.15am tea/coffee
Session 2: 11.45-12.30pm
Owen Wright (SOAS)
Music theory in Mamluk Cairo
12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch break
Session 3: 1.30pm – 3pm
Nina ter Laan (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
The street as a stage: Music and Islamic activism in the Moroccan Arab Spring
Stephen WIlford (City University London)
“In our culture poets have more power than politicians”: The lives, deaths and legacies of Lounès Matoub and Cheb Hasni.
Session 4: 3-4pm
Screening of John Baily's new film 'Return of the Nightingales' (32 mins) followed by discussion.
Copies of the recently reprinted (slightly revised ) edition of John's CUP book Music of Afghanistan will also be on sale.
4pm tea/coffee
4.30-5.15pm
Sara Manasseh (Independent scholar)
Shbahoth: Songs of praise in the Babylonian Jewish tradition -- From Baghdad to Bombay to London
5.30-6.30pm
Music and book launch for Sara's new book with CD, Shbahoth -- Songs of Praise in the Babylonian Jewish Tradition: From Baghdad to Bombay and London (SOAS Musicology Series, Ashgate Press).
Advance booking is requested via Valerie James at [log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]> <https://webmail.uva.nl/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> <[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]" target="_blank">http:[log in to unmask]> >
Tel: 020 7664 4865
A contribution to costs of £10 is requested on the door. £5 for students, seniors and unwaged.
http://music.sas.ac.uk/research-networks/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
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