Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Friday 13th May 2016, 9.45am-6.15pm
'Soundspaces of the Middle East and Central Asia: Exploring the Intersection of Sound Studies and Ethnomusicology in the Middle East and Central Asia'
Convened by the Music Department at City University London in conjunction with the Institute of Musical Research
Venue: City University London, Music Department, Room AG09, College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4BP
All welcome and admission is free but advance registration is requested for planning purposes.
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2016/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
Schedule
9.45am Welcome
Session 1, 9.50am - 11.30am
Meri Kyto (University of Tampere, Finland): 'Negotiating the Acoustic Community: A sonic ethnography of a housing cooperative in Istanbul’
Ruard Absaroka (SOAS) ‘ Sounding Islam in Chinese Central Asia: Methodologies and perspectives'
and Rachel Harris (SOAS): 'Islamic Extremism, Song and Dance, and Sonic Territoriality: Contesting the Xinjiang Soundscape'
11.30-11.50 Tea/Coffee
Session 2, 11.50 - 1.15pm
Rachel Beckles Willson (Royal Holloway, University London) ‘“Isolation wrapped in layers of silence”: When an oud is a place that narrates'.
Followed by a screening of the film Telling Strings (Anne-Marie Heller, Switzerland, 2007).
Lunch (not provided)
Session 3, 2.15pm - 3.45pm
ROUNDTABLE: Exploring the Intersection of Sound Studies and Ethnomusicology in the Middle East and Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
Aaron Einbond (City University London)
Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford)
Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins University)
Abigail Wood (University of Haifa)
3.45-4.15pm Tea/Coffee
Session 4, 4.15-6.15pm
Abigail Wood (University of Haifa): 'The Cantor and the Muezzin’s Duet at the Western Wall: contesting sound spaces on the frayed seams of the Israel-Palestine conflict'
Stefan Williamson Fa (UCL): ‘Loudspeakers and Chains: public ritual and Shi’i soundscapes in Northeastern Anatolia’
Mohsen Shahrnazdar (Tehran Soundscapes Project): 'Tehran Soundscapes Project'
The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum has been running since 2007 and 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.)
The Forum is convened by Dr Laudan Nooshin, City University London ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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