PROGRAMME CHANGE
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Miriam Gazzah is unfortunately unable to attend the Forum on Thursday.
Miranda Crowdus has kindly stepped in. Please see amended programme below.
For those interested in reading Miriam's paper ('Dutch-Moroccans making music: Popular reconfigurations of ethics and aesthetics'), hard copies will be available at the Forum.
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
Chair: Carolyn Landau (King's College, University of London)
Simone Tarsitani (Durham University)
Musical and linguistic variations of Islamic panegyrics in eastern Ethiopia
Miranda Crowdus (City University London)
Transforming Ethno-religious Barriers through Collective Rap: Palestinian-Israeli Music and the Tel-Aviv-Yafo Underground
11.15am tea/coffee
Session 2: 11.45-12.30pm
Chair: Martin Stokes (King's College, University of London)
Owen Wright (SOAS)
Music theory in Mamluk Cairo
12.30pm – 1.30pm Lunch break
Session 3: 1.30pm – 3pm
Chair: Anna Morcom (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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
Chair: Laudan Nooshin (City University London)
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
Chair: tbc
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]><[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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