Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Current research in the Music of the Middle East and Central Asia
Friday, 10 November 2017, 9.30am-6.30pm
Venue: Department of Music, SOAS, University of London, Room G52, College Buildings, Thornhaugh St. WC1H 0XG
All welcome and admission is free but advance registration is requested.
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/november/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
9.45am Welcome
Session 1, 9.50 - 11.10
Sonifying National Independence Ideology: The Politics of Popular Music in Karimov’s Uzbekistan (Kerstin Klenke, Goethe University Frankfurt)
The Performance of the Social Imaginary in Bābak Boubān’s Setarvan (Ignacio Agrimbau, SOAS)
11.10 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee
Session 2, 11.30 - 12.50
The Ashiq Bard in Iran and Azerbaijan: A Comparative Look at Transmission and Change (Anna Oldfield, Coastal Carolina University)
Mumbling the Qur’an: Pious incorporation and vocal reluctance (Lisa-Maria Brusius, KCL)
Lunch (not provided)
Session 3, 14.10 - 15.30
The Musical Nahda: Reckonings with Musical Modernity across the Mediterranean (Hazem Jamjoum, NYU)
A Brief History and Examination of 20th Century Arab Women Composers (Zaina Shihabi, Liverpool)
15.20-15.50pm Tea/Coffee
Session 4, 15.50 - 17.10
History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record (Clara Wenz, SOAS)
“The Algerian woman is very strong”: music and gender in Algerian London (Stephen Wilford, City, University of London)
17.30 - 18.30 Live music
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 of London, ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), and Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS, University of London, ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
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