Liza Munk, University of California Santa BarbaraAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective One pattern in current scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa is the tendency to focus on crisis โ crises of war, of refugees, of climate. While valuing the responsibility …
Musique et arts vivants de rue au Maroc: Accompagner la performance, lui donner sens
Anne-Myriam Abdelhak, Universiteฬ de Paris - URMIS, Centre Jacques Berque and LADSISAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective ยซJouer dans un espace contesteฬ : trajectoires de โmusiciens de rueโ en milieu urbain marocainยปJโaborderai dans cette preฬsentation les liens entre musique, espace et pouvoir dans …
Making โHomeโ on the Diasporic Dancefloor: Taqsim as Storytelling in Arab-influenced Underground Dance Music
Jillian S. Fulton-Melanson, York UniversityAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective Melodies evoke nostalgia and emotions, taking performers and listeners to different temporal locations. Taqsim, the Arabic word for musical improvisation, is a melodic exploration that, depending on the performer, can tell a story …
Performing Samba in Beirut: citizenship, precarity and the Lebanese state
Gabrielle Messeder, City, University of LondonAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective Leila Khoury [pseudonum] is a Saฬo Paulo-born Lebanese-Brazilian singer and dancer who lives and works in Beirut. Due to the close transnational relationship between the two countries and the international commodification of …
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Social Change of Hereditary Musicians: The Introduction of Electronic Keyboards in Traditional Wedding Ceremonies of Western Anatolia
Sฬงahin Yaldiz, CHOREOMUNDUS: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and HeritageAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective Until the 1990s, music in wedding ceremonies of Western Anatolia was played by traditional musicians and the ceremonies used to traditionally go on for three days and …
Chypre, musiques et espace aฬ travers le cas des concerts bicommunautaires
Ikbal Hamzaoui, Institut Supeฬrieur de musique de TunisAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective Ayant reฬaliseฬ une seฬrie de seฬjours de terrain ร Chypre de 2000 ร 2007 durant lesquels je travaillais sur les confluences entre les musiques greco-turco-arabes, jโai pu vivre la transition …
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Cliquetis, Cloches, Simandres et Orgues: sons de pouvoir au Saint-Seฬpulcre de Jeฬrusalem
Olivier Tourny, CNRS, Universiteฬ Aix MarseilleAbstract for the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group:Music, Power, and Space: A Mediterranean Perspective Lieu de la passion et de la mort du Christ, lโeฬglise du Saint-Seฬpulcre est le Saint des Saints de la Chreฬtienteฬ. Elle nโest pourtant pas le lieu dโaccueil de tous les Christianismes. …
Airports
KELSEY WAXMAN 2005 Kinan Azmeh is queuing. It is after midnight, and the Julliard student has just off-boarded a flight from Damascus at New Yorkโs John F. Kennedy International Airport. He navigates a sea of passengers spilling out of planes throughout the arrivals hall and into the chaotic hordes of Passport Control. Tired and sleep …
On Sound, Violence, Postcolonial Legacies and Urban Spaces in Beirut
In this post, Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha reflects on the sonic politics of musical life in Beirut. The piece speaks in dialogue with a sound piece by Abed Kobeissy, 'The Crusades According to Tamim', also presented here. Together, these pieces signal the connections between sound and street life, tradition and experimentalism, conflict and …
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Sounds Beyond the Border
In this video, Evrim Hikmet รฤรผt presents interviews with Syrian musicians living and working in Istanbul. Taken from the larger 'Sounds Beyond the Border' project, the video seeks to understand experiences of migration through music. The interviews open perspectives on the permanence and transience of life in displacement, the complexities of belonging and relationships between …
ฮฮตฮณฮฌฯฯฮฝฮฑ: Loudspeakers / Loud Speakers
In this post, Tom Western presents a sound piece about loudspeakers -- ฮผฮตฮณฮฌฯฯฮฝฮฑ -- in Athens. The recordings highlight the ethical and political work done by loudspeakers in the city, and the diversity of functions they perform. The accompanying text asks us to consider sound reproduction technologies not only as part of narratives of western …
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