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Music, Technology and Digital Cultures in the Middle East and North Africa One-Day Conference
Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Department of Music – City, University of London
Registration is now open for our one-day conference next month. All are welcome and the event is free. We would ask anyone who wishes to attend to register via the following link:
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/may/mena-research-conference
For further information about the conference, please contact Stephen Wilford: [log in to unmask]
Thanks to financial support from the Institute of Musical Research, a number of small travel and accommodation bursaries (to a maximum of £60) will be available for postgraduate students, independent scholars and early career researchers (within three years of completing their PhD). If you are interested in applying for one of these bursaries, please email [log in to unmask] with a short statement explaining your rationale for applying for funding.
This one-day conference seeks to explore the ways in which music, technology and digital cultures form part of everyday musical practices for performers, composers and listeners in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and throughout MENA diasporic networks. The event will bring together scholars, performers, filmmakers and events organisers who share an interest in both historical and contemporary musical cultures in the MENA region. Our definition of technology is intentionally broad, and encompasses compositional, instrumental, archival and communicative digital technologies (the Internet, social media, etc.). The conference aims to open up dialogue about the relationship between musics, technologies and digital cultures in the contemporary MENA region.
The conference is being run in conjunction with the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, which is also being held at City, University of London (on Monday 22nd May). This is another free event, and details can be found via:
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-forum
If you wish to attend both events, please register for them each separately.
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