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SUMMARY:Panel discussion:  The (De)Colonial Legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress
DESCRIPTION:The panel brings together musicians\, scholars and archivists to reflect on the legacy of the 1932 Cairo Congress from a contemporary MENA perspective. Moderated by Rim Irscheid\, panelists Kamilya Jubran\, Hazem Jamjoum\, Tarik Beshir and Gülcin Özkişi discuss how the Congress continues to shape ideas of authenticity\, notation\, preservation\, and musical modernity today. Drawing on creative practice and research\, the panel will explore the political\, colonial\, and archival dimensions of this historic gathering and its ongoing impact on music-making and knowledge production in the region. The panel takes place on Thursday 9 April\, 4–5.30pm in the Pyramid Room at King’s College London (War Studies Department)\, followed by a drinks reception. \nThe event is free and open to all\, registration is required. Please register here \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/panel-discussion-the-decolonial-legacy-of-the-1932-cairo-congress/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Residency # 6 : Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hassler at Café Oto\, London
DESCRIPTION:As part of the final Beyond 1932 Residency\, Kamilya Jubran and long-time collaborator Werner Hasler will perform their third studio album و WA (Arabic for ‘and’). \nHinging on a practice of interrogating their hearing and their expression\, their research and their desire\, the duo draw a universe where everything seems possible. Sound becomes a unison of stamps\, cultures completing each other\, sentences colliding with each other\, modes and languages meeting each other while communicating respective roots and presents through artistic conversation. \nTuesday 7 April 2026\, 7:30 pm at Café OTO\, London. \n    Please book here
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-6-kamilya-jubran-werner-hassler-at-cafe-oto-london/
LOCATION:Cafe Oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Residency # 5 : Bint Mbareh at Kunstraum\, London
DESCRIPTION:Bint Mbareh has spent the past two years\, since being invited to participate in the Beyond 1932 Residency\, playing the buzuq a little bit almost every day – the results of this mundane practise will be shown during the performance. Rooted in her practice on the buzuq\, her performance unfolds in two parts: a solo set developed through small daily acts during the Beyond 1932 residency\, followed by a participatory choir session. \n Please register via Ticket Tailor \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-5-bint-mbareh-at-kunstraum-london/
LOCATION:Kunstraum\, 21 Roscoe Street\, London\, EC1Y 8PT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251203T183000
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SUMMARY:Counterpoints annual gathering at Hoxton Hall
DESCRIPTION:Farid participated to the Counterpoints Arts annual event on 3 December 2025. This year\, an elegant mix of short speeches\, glocal women choir melodies\, the presentation of the Palestine Comedy Club‘s show in Bush Theatre on 21 Dec… and excellent Jamaican food. But let’s focus here on their choir project. \nSounds Like Home is an international women’s choir in Hoxton\, created and run by Ellen Muriel with Asha Wilson. The group commissioned by Counterpoints was started in January 2024 with migrant women living locally\, by inviting them to sing a song that reminded them of the first place they called home. \nWomen of Turkish\, Latin American\, West African and South Asian heritage\, women over 60\, and individuals who identify as a part of the LGBTQ+ community learned songs\, using a Natural Voice approach to teaching focused on disarming anxiety and removing barriers through a playful and non-judgemental call & response technique. \nTheir repertoire includes ‘Bu Son Olsun’\, a Turkish song by activist and exiled singer Cem Karaca\, which a choir member fondly remembered from her childhood as her dad’s favourite\, but also Irish\, British\, Zulu\, Yoruba and Spanish songs with translation and pronunciation lead by the songs’ cultural holders. I particularly appreciated a sea shanty from Hastings sung collectively by the choir and the audience under Ellen’s lead. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/counterpoints-annual-gathering-in-hoxton/
LOCATION:Counterpoints Arts\, Hoxton\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feast
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251012T073000
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SUMMARY:Residency #4 : Kareem Samara at Cafe Oto
DESCRIPTION:Let’s discover Kareem Samara with his Oud\, Arabic percussion\, loopers and samplers. \nKareem Samara is an improviser and composer from London. He has worked extensively in theatre as a composer and has toured worldwide with different iterations of solo and collaborative musical projects. He combines the Oud and Arabic percussion\, with loopers and samplers to create a new dialogue between himself and technology. This combined with experimental amplification techniques and use of guitar pedals offers a unique sonic assault from Samara on recordings and live that allow a listener to bathe in his reflections of the current moment\, and connect with him and themselves. \nTickets sale here. \nA limited number of free tickets are available for KCL students and staff\, and those who cannot afford a ticket\, on a first-come-first serve basis. Please register via Ticket Tailor: https://buytickets.at/kingsartshums/1873452  \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-4-kareem-samara-at-cafe-oto/
LOCATION:Cafe Oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Bernard Moussali and 1932 Cairo Congress: Arabian Music in Search of its Identity.
DESCRIPTION:Public lecture with Prof Jean Lambert (Paris) \n\nThe event is free but registration on this Eventbrite link is requested. \n  \nABSTRACT  \nThe Cairo Congress of Arab Music (1932) brought together many musicologists from the Near East and Europe\, as well as musicians from the Arab world. Several different visions of the identity of the future Arab music were confronted\, some modernist and others traditionalist. The book puts this scientific event in its historical context (the end of the Ottoman Empire\, the colonial period\, the rise of nationalism\, the appearance of 78-rpm records). And above all\, it exposes the main debates on the systematization of the musical scale with 24 quarter tones\, as well as on the choice of musical instruments.   \nBIO  \nProfessor Jean Lambert is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist\, Maître de conférence at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris\, and researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM-LESC\, UMR 7186). Centring on the Arab world\, and specifically on Yemen\, the Arabian Peninsula\, and Lebanon\, Jean Lambert’s work explores the relationship between local musical practices\, and Arab-Islamic culture’s global meanings: context performance\, ritual practices\, mythological representations\, formation of contemporary identities. Recently he has been focused on Bernard Moussali’s archives pertaining to the 1932 Cairo Congress.   \nBOOK  \nHis lecture accompanies the recent publication of 2024 Bernard Moussali\, Le Congrès du Caire de 1932. La musique arabe à la recherche de son identité. Paris\, Geuthner (édition critique et augmentée\, Avant-Propos et Postface: Jean Lambert
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/bernard-moussali-and-1932-cairo-congress-arabian-music-in-search-of-its-identity/
LOCATION:King’s College London – Music Department\, Strand building @ Room SWB 21\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250331T190000
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SUMMARY:Residency #3 : Sara Hamdy at the British Library (Pigott Theatre)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multidisciplinary live performance that brings to life Sara Hamdy’s groundbreaking research into the history of electronic music and experimental sound in Egypt.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-3-sara-hamdy-at-the-british-library-pigott-theatre/
LOCATION:the British Library (Pigott Theatre)\, London NW12DB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Beyond 1932 Residency: Public Lecture on Egyptian Sonic Arts and Archives
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special afternoon bringing together artists from Egypt (Sara Hamdy and Shadwa Ali)\, London-based creatives\, researchers\, and those interested in contemporary Egyptian music\, sound art\, and archives. Please RSVP by emailing rim.j.irscheid@kcl.ac.uk \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/beyond-1932-residency-public-lecture-on-egyptian-sonic-arts-and-archives/
LOCATION:St Pancras Clock Tower\, next to St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel\, Euston Rd\, Kings Cross\, London NW1 2AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250307T203000
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SUMMARY:Residency #2 : Rust duo (Petra El Hawi & Hany Manja) at the Greenwood Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Come and share with us a unique evening with the electro-tarab vibes of Rust (Petra and Hany) of Levantine origin and living in the Czech Republic.  \nRust is a Prague-based duo whose music blends the Arabic heritage of melody and poetry with a modern electronic sound. Combining elements of Arabic music with contemporary production and powerful vocals\, Rust draws influence from the older generation of musical rebels\, aiming to bridge the gap between legacy and modernity. The project was cofounded in Beirut in 2020 by Petra El Hawi\, a Lebanese musician and vocalist Hany Manja\, a Syrian musician\, Oud player and electronic music producer. \nBook your free ticket
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-3-rust-duo-petra-el-hawi-hany-manja-at-the-greenwood-theatre-london/
LOCATION:Greenwood Theatre\, 55 Weston Street\, London SE1 3RA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250202T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250202T160000
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SUMMARY:Sound archive workshop at King's
DESCRIPTION:Olivia Melkonian and Dr Rim Irscheid  hosted a sound archiving and memory workshop on Sunday\, 2nd February 2025 at the REACH space entitled “Archival Skills Training: Preserving Sound and Memory in Urgent Times”. 18 participants attended the event\, both beginners and  experienced in archival practices and sound recording.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/sound-archive-workshop-at-kings/
LOCATION:Reach space @ King’s College London\, Strand\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241211T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241211T180000
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SUMMARY:'Beyond 1932' host the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (MECAMF)
DESCRIPTION: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. The Forum is convened by Professor Laudan Nooshin from City St George’s\, University of London (l.nooshin@city.ac.uk) and Professor Rachel Harris from SOAS\, University of London (rh@soas.ac.uk). \nThe event is free but registration is requested for planning purposes\, on this link to Eventbrite  \nFull programme and abstracts can be accessed here: https://arcg.is/1Huyja0 \n  \nPROGRAMME \nSESSION ONE 10.15-11.00 (Room SWB20) \nIn memoriam Tony Langlois (1960-2024). \nFilm: Tarab al-Gharnati (Tony Langlois\, SLAM Cultural Association of Tlemçen)\, and coffee. \nChair: Martin Stokes \n  \nSESSION TWO 11.15 -12.45 (Room SWB21) \n11.15-11.45 Ulaş Özdemir (Istanbul University)\, “Searching for Sounds of Alevi Lineage in 78 rpm Recordings: Gaziantepli Hasan Hüseyin and his Unique Music Repertoire” \n11.45-12.15-Onur Engin (Cambridge University) “Church Bell related conflicts in the Late Ottoman Empire”. \n12.15-12.45 Cristina Moreno Almeida (QMUL) “Dis-meme-bering the Nation: The Memetic Return of the Andalusi song ‘Chams al Achya’” \nChair: tbd \nLUNCH (food available in ‘Chapters’ Café on the Strand Campus next to Chapel\, or in Bush House Basement) \n  \nSESSION THREE 2.00-3.30 (Room SWB21) \n2.00-2.30 Gülçin Özkişi (King’s College London)\, “Women and the Piano in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey: Why So Many?” \n2.30-3.00 Abbas Alsadeq (King’s College London)\, “The Hawasa “Kasra” Model of Husayni Lamentation in Bahrain and Its Transmission to Qatif” \n3.00-3.45 Salvatore Morra (Cambridge University) “Italian Arab Musical Encounters: two case studies” \nChair: Tbd \n  \nSESSION FOUR 4.00-5.30 (Room SWB21) \n4.00-5.30 Roundtable\, ‘Beyond 1932’. Sophie Frankford\, Rim Irscheid\, Yara Salahiddeen\, Martin Stokes (King’s College London). \nChair: Ziad Elmarsafy (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature\, St. Andrews) \n5.45—6.15 Performance: Hussein Lamentations from Qatif\, Abbas Alsadeq (KCL) \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/beyond-1932-host-the-middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum-mecamf/
LOCATION:King’s College London – Music Department\, Strand building @ Room SWB 21\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241204T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241204T180000
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SUMMARY:Counterpoints - Annual event 2024
DESCRIPTION:Rim and Farid as members of  Counterpoints network participated to the ‘Annual Get Together’ in 4 December 2024\, co-hosted with Unbound Philanthropy. The event gathered artists\, cultural networks\, and organisations working with refugees. It was also an opportunity to celebrate the work done in 2024 and share plans for 2025.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/counterpoints-annual-event-2024/
LOCATION:Hoxton Hall\, Hoxton street\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Feast
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241114T235959
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SUMMARY:MESA Conference 2024 - Panel VII 'Melodious Resistance: Music\, Politics\, and Pedagogy'
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Frankford and Yara Salahiddeen recently participated in a panel at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) entitled Melodious Resistance: Music\, Politics and Pedagogy. \n  \nSophie Frankford \nBetween Welfare and Exclusion: The Shifting Role of Egypt’s Musicians’ Syndicate \nWhen Egypt’s Musicians’ Syndicate was established in 1944\, thanks in part to the efforts of singer Umm Kulthum\, it was envisaged as a way to provide musicians with material support including healthcare\, pensions\, and help securing employment. Although the Syndicate continues to provide these services\, in recent years it has hit the headlines instead for its increasingly spectacular policing of Egypt’s music scene: it has fined and arrested numerous musicians it deems to be threatening public taste\, and even tried to ban an entire genre (mahraganat) in the name of preserving the country’s musical heritage. Using press sources\, documents from the Syndicate\, and ethnographic fieldwork with musicians and Syndicate officials in Cairo (2018-2023)\, this paper traces transformations in the Syndicate’s role and remit from the 1940s to the early 2020s\, focusing on the shifting balance between its two functions: providing welfare\, and excluding certain musicians and styles. I show that these two functions have always gone hand in hand\, increasing in tandem at certain historical junctures. Since the 1950s\, fines and levies against non-members have been used to fund members’ welfare provisions\, and the violent exclusion of novel musical styles ensures continued employment for older\, more established musicians who constitute the Syndicate’s main member base. Contrary to scholarship that suggests the Syndicate is increasingly interventionist\, I show that the Syndicate has always been invested in policing the boundaries of the musical profession in ways that exclude certain (often already marginalised) artists. Drawing on recent scholarship on music-making in Egypt (Sprengel 2019\, 2020; Karawya 2022; Simon 2022)\, I argue that historicising the actions of the present-day Syndicate can help us better understand its central role in shaping the country’s music scene\, as well as illuminating the realities of cultural production under conditions of authoritarianism. I also draw on broader writing on the role of professional associations (al-niqābāt al-mihaniyya) in Egypt (Springborg 1978; Pollard 2014; Longueness and Monciaud 2011)\, to consider how these associations (the Musicians’ Syndicate included) function to compensate for the limits of the welfare state through their self-funded welfare provision programmes. \nYara Salahiddeen \nSongbooks – Music Publishing and Literacy in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century \nThis paper examines songbooks published between the 1870s and 1920s by a small but active music publishing scene in Cairo and Alexandria. I have named these publications ‘songbooks’ as they feature collections of lyrics of vocal forms\, including muwashshah\, dawr\, mawwāl\, qasῑda\, ṭaqṭuqa\, nashīd and sung marches. As relatively unused sources\, they reveal a live repertoire never placed on commercial records\, as well as a connection between a nascent entertainment scene and a cottage print industry on Cairo’s Mohammad Ali Street. Song collections provide an alternative source for the study of aesthetic trends within popular entertainment but also provide evidence for the significance of sung practice as one of the sites of formation of a shared national culture. Their presence increased the circulation of a popular repertoire\, from a word of mouth to something physically shareable – crucially before the emergence of the mass record industry. This forces us to rethink conceptions of musical literacy in their potential as pedagogical or performance props as well as a silent way to engage with poetry. My work shows that content broadened from derivations of older theoretical treatises and semi-pedagogical texts to something more reflective of a hobbyist interest in the commercial scene. It also reveals the divergences of interest in the ṭarab (musical ecstasy or engagement) aesthetic within a fast changing urban recreational scene. Music publishing represents the bridging between elite and non-elite claims over the definition of ‘local’ Egyptian musical culture. Books were often a result of the network shared between musicians\, publishers\, print presses\, teachers\, song-makers (composers\, lyricists etc)\, instrument-makers and musicologists. For readers\, books were a way to claim knowledge not of the songs themselves but of the culture of music-making\, including through visual media like photographs and engravings of relevant artists and instruments. The gender and class implications of this are significant of course at a time of increasing access for women musicians and listeners. This work therefore contributes both to Arabic music historiography\, but also to the emergent field of popular culture studies of the Middle East and Mediterranean during the late Ottoman Empire. In terms of methodology\, I bring my performance insight into analyses of the content organisation\, song selections and prefaces of the works as well as their implications on the ways that texts might have informed existing performance and pedagogies.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/mesa-conference-2024-melodious-resistance-music-politics-and-pedagogy/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition with Mo’min Swaitat
DESCRIPTION:Farid took part to the closing event of the Palestinian Sound Archive exhibition\, accessible from 27 July to 1 November 2024 at Southbank Centre. It explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance\, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage\, culture and resistance. \n\nPalestinian Sound Archive is a celebration of music\, spoken word and album artwork from historic Palestine\, mainly from the 1960s to 1990s. It is part of Majazz Project\, a Palestinian-led record label and research platform founded by Mo’min Swaitat in 2020. \n\nhttps://www.itsnicethat.com/features/palestinian-sound-archive-majazz-project-graphic-design-art-music-spotlight-021024 \n  \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/palestinian-sound-archive-exhibition-with-momin-swaitat/
LOCATION:Southbank Centre\, Royal Festival Hall
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241009T210000
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SUMMARY:Classical Iranian Music : 'Nasim-e-Tarab Ensemble'
DESCRIPTION:‘Beyond 1932’ team attended the performance of the five-member Nasim-e Tarab Ensemble. It was a suite of classical Iranian music composed and arranged by Saeid Kordmafi\, based on his extensive research into the music of the Near and Middle East and Central Asia\, with a view to approach classical Iranian music from a cross-cultural and historically informed perspective. \nThis event is part of the extensive Maqam Beyond Nation project\, jointly organised by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London University\, UK and Universita Ca Foscari\, Venezia\, Italy.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/classical-iranian-music-nasim-e-tarab-ensemble/
LOCATION:Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre – SOAS\, London
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241005T235959
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SUMMARY:International Research Network's Symposium                                                                     'What music is capable of in situations of (forced) migration'
DESCRIPTION:On 4 and 5 October 2024\, team members Martin Stokes\, Rim Irscheid\, Sophie Frankford and PhD student Merel Dubois Van Slageren participated in the panel ‘Of What is Music Capable in Situations of Forced Migration’\, in conjunction with the Music and Migration network at EHRSS Bayonne\, directed by Denis Laborde\, together with Yara al-Ghadhban and Talia Bachir-Loopuyt.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPROGRAMME\nColloque IRN – 4 & 5 Oct. 2024_EN
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/annual-symposium-of-the-international-research-network-musi-mig-what-music-is-capable-of-in-situations-of-forced-migration/
LOCATION:Cité des Arts\, Bayonne\, France
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240609T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240609T200000
DTSTAMP:20240622T140108Z
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SUMMARY:‘Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt’ symposium
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Frankford\, alongside Dalia Ibrahim and Dr. Kawkab Tawfik\, organised a 1-day symposium\, ‘Listening in: Music and Power in Egypt’. Sophie also presented her research\, with a paper on “Sheikh Imam: The Radio Experiment”. \n  \nFor event link\, please see here.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/listening-in-music-and-power-in-egypt-symposium/
LOCATION:IFAO\, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale\, Cairo\, Egypt
CATEGORIES:Symposium
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Frankford":MAILTO:sophie.frankford@kcl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240601T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240601T213000
DTSTAMP:20240622T140658Z
CREATED:20240622T135929Z
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SUMMARY:‘Oxford Maqam: Cairo Tango and Jazz’ Concert
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for two of Oxford Maqam’s sell-out shows in one evening: ‘Tarab and Tango’ and ‘Cairo Nights’\, 7pm 1st June at the Greenwood Theatre\, London. \nGet drawn in by unique sounds inspired by 1930s Cairo as the birthplace of Arabic tango\, followed by the incredible big band collaboration showcasing 1950s Egypt in the second half. Building on last year’s extremely successful premiere this performance is the only other chance to catch this unmissable event. \nFor fifteen years\, Oxford Maqam have been trailblazers in researching and performing classical Arabic music. Their hypnotic recreations of Egyptian song\, from the mid 1800s through to the early cinema era\, have beguiled audiences across England\, Europe\, the Middle East and Australia. Songlines magazine called their debut album “revolutionary.” \nAs the Oxford Maqam Big Band\, they join forces once again with students and alumni of King’s College London and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music\, a stellar thirty-piece ensemble bringing a traditional line-up of trumpets\, trombones and saxophones alongside a string section. \nProfessor Martin Stokes\, King Edward Professor of Music\, worked with King’s Liberal Arts alumnus Jake Fletcher and SOAS PhD student\, Daniel Woodfield\, to arrange eight charts for the band. These transcriptions were based on audio records by established Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez\, whose works brought together Arabic sound and other influences from around the world. This performance also celebrates the artists that surrounded Hafez at this point in his career\, who through their different contributions created a uniquely cosmopolitan sound world that has since disappeared in live performance. \nDon’t miss this chance to experience the diversity of Egyptian popular song\, presented live by the UK’s leading interpreters of classical Arabic music. \nFor tickets\, interviews and further enquiries please contact Mez Dubois-van Slageren at oxfordmaqam@gmail.com.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/oxford-maqam-cairo-tango-and-jazz-concert/
LOCATION:Greenwood Theatre\, 55 Weston Street\, London SE1 3RA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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ORGANIZER;CN="Martin Stokes":MAILTO:martin.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240531T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240531T180000
DTSTAMP:20240718T150105Z
CREATED:20240622T143220Z
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SUMMARY:‘Song and Dance-scapes in Popular Turkish\, Greek and Egyptian Cinema/Theatre’ workshop
DESCRIPTION:Martin Stokes organised a 1-day workshop on May 31\, ‘Song and Dance-scapes in Popular Turkish\, Greek and Egyptian Cinema/Theatre’\, with Anne R David (Roehampton KCL)\, Dafni Tragaki (University of Thessaly)\, Carole Woodall (University of Colorado\, Colorado Springs)\, Lydia Papadimitriou (John Moores University\, Liverpool)\, Cüneyt Çakırlar (Nottingham University)\, Samar Abderrahman (Liverpool University)\, Iain Smith (KCL)\, Yara Salahiddeen (KCL)\, Shreya Anasuya (KCL)\, and Chihab El Khashab (Oxford). \n“This interdisciplinary workshop starts by questioning\, with Sabri Hafez\, the insistence on the national frame of reference in film studies in Egypt – an observation that can easily enough be extended to Turkey and Greece. The popular song and dance-scapes in mid-20th century theatre and film in the eastern Mediterranean would seem to call for an entirely different approach. So much circulates in translated form – translation being understood here very broadly\, embracing the uncanny echo just as much as deliberate borrowings\, adaptations and appropriations of songs\, dances\, entire plots\, mise-en-scènes and so forth\, of which devotees of these cinemas are generally\, and to greater or lesser extents\, aware. A great deal\, too\, took shape in the dual forcefields of Hollywood and Bollywood\, and across the entire region. Singing and dancing bodies pose some classic problems in film studies (viz. Richard Dyer and others on stars). Starting with\, and thinking through them\, may however be exactly what is required to generate fresh insights into the fields of circulation that define 20th century Turkish\, Greek and Egyptian cinemas and their immediate hinterlands (musical theater\, operetta\, vaudeville etc.) The insights of queer and performance theory\, film and media studies\, anthropology\, musicology and ethnomusicology all seem vital\, too\, but are rarely in conversation\, in this field at least\, and this is another modest aim of the workshop.”
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/song-and-dance-scapes-in-popular-turkish-greek-and-egyptian-cinema-theatre-workshop/
LOCATION:King’s College London – Music Department\, Strand building @ Room SWB 21\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Martin Stokes":MAILTO:martin.stokes@kcl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240524T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240524T235959
DTSTAMP:20240622T144640Z
CREATED:20240622T144614Z
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SUMMARY:“Breaths from Aleppo\, Muwashshahat Halabiyya: Musical Heritage from Aleppo with Ibrahim Muslimani” workshop
DESCRIPTION:Ibrahim Muslimani presents on the musical heritage of Aleppo\, focusing particularly on the art of Muwashshahat. Martin Stokes and Sophie Frankford participated in performing this musical repertoire alongside Ibrahim. \n 
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/breaths-from-aleppo-muwashshahat-halabiyya-musical-heritage-from-aleppo-with-ibrahim-muslimani-workshop/
LOCATION:King’s College London – Music Department\, Strand building @ Room SWB 21\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240516T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240516T235959
DTSTAMP:20240622T144910Z
CREATED:20240622T144910Z
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SUMMARY:“The Institutionalisation of Egyptian Sha’bi Music” at the ‘Music Ethnography’ workshop
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/the-institutionalisation-of-egyptian-shabi-music-at-the-music-ethnography-workshop/
LOCATION:King’s College London – Music Department\, Strand building @ Room SWB 21\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="Sophie Frankford":MAILTO:sophie.frankford@kcl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240511T213000
DTSTAMP:20240622T145351Z
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SUMMARY:Residency #1: HARDI KURDA + ARCHIVE KHANAH ئەرشیف خانه at Cafe Oto
DESCRIPTION:What is the role of citizens and local communities in preserving the sound of their region? Who decided what music and sounds are ‘worth’ being archived? And how should we engage with archives as sites of both remembering and forgetting? As part of the ERC’s Beyond 1932 Research Project at King’s College London\, sound artist and composer Hardi Kurda will launch his new project\, Archive Khanah. The event is part of Space21 Festival based across Slemani (Kurdistan) and its artist networks in Lebanon\, Cyprus and the UK. The evening will introduce the sound archive’s interactive and community-based approach to recording and archiving forgotten and excluded voices from the 1920s – 1970s in Kurdistan and Iraq by using computer game technology to capture and perform the sounds of the region.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/residency-1-hardi-kurda-archive-khanah-%d8%a6%db%95%d8%b1%d8%b4%db%8c%d9%81-%d8%ae%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%87-at-cafe-oto/
LOCATION:Cafe Oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240508T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240508T235959
DTSTAMP:20240622T151707Z
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SUMMARY:Archive Khanah x Beyond 1932 Residencies: Performing Kurdish Sound Archives
DESCRIPTION:Hardi Kurda (Residency Artist) and Rim Irscheid (chair) present “Archive Khanah x Beyond 1932 Residencies: Performing Kurdish Sound Archives” at the Middle East and Central Asian Music Forum.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/archive-khanah-x-beyond-1932-residencies-performing-kurdish-sound-archives/
LOCATION:SOAS\, 10 Thornhaugh St\, London\, WC1H 0XG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240508T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240508T235959
DTSTAMP:20240622T151608Z
CREATED:20240622T151608Z
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SUMMARY:At Home in the Uncanny: A Sonic Exploration of Urban Aesthetics\, Ethics\, and Care in Post-Explosion Lebanon and Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Rim Irscheid presents “At Home in the Uncanny: A Sonic Exploration of Urban Aesthetics\, Ethics\, and Care in Post-Explosion Lebanon and Egypt” at the Middle East and Central Asian Music Forum.
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/at-home-in-the-uncanny-a-sonic-exploration-of-urban-aesthetics-ethics-and-care-in-post-explosion-lebanon-and-egypt/
LOCATION:SOAS\, 10 Thornhaugh St\, London\, WC1H 0XG\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Rim Irscheid":MAILTO:rim.j.irscheid@kcl.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240406T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240406T180000
DTSTAMP:20241205T191541Z
CREATED:20241205T190444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T191541Z
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SUMMARY:The 'ud new tones - Workshop at the French National Library
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1990s\, we have witnessed the emergence of generations of Arab oud players\, mainly working in Europe in close collaboration with musicians from jazz and world music scenes. Since then\, the oud has undergone transformations aimed at adapting it to sound performance situations\, through amplification and\, more recently\, electrification.\n \nWe have participated  to this afternoon at the French national Libray  about technical\, aesthetic and social issues related to the ‘ud amplification. The artist Mehdi Haddab also presented and played with his electric ‘ud.\n \n  \nProgramme\n14 h – 14 h 30 : Présentation des corpus sonores de la BnF \nPar Fabrice Menneteau (chef du service Son\, département Son\, vidéo\, multimédia\,  BnF) \n14 h 30 – 15 h : Enjeux de la sonorisation\, amplification et électrification du oud \nPar Abderraouf Ouertani (musicien\, compositeur et anthropologue) \n15 h – 15 h 10 : Pause \n15 h 10 – 17 h 15 : Table ronde \nModérateurs : Séverine Gabry-Thienpont (IDEAS\, CNRS/AMU)\, Abderraouf Ouertani (centre Georg Simmel)\nAvec Mehdi Haddab (joueur de oud\, Duoud\, Speed Caravan)\, Irène Rifaud (luthière)\, Youssef Touil (ingénieur\, fabricant de capteur/pré-amplis pour oud) et Emmanuel Émo (producteur\, ingénieur du son) \n17 h 15 – 17 h 30 : Pause \n17 h 30 – 18 h 15 : Clôture musicale – Récital d’oud électrifié\nPar Abderraouf Ouertani (musicien\, compositeur et anthropologue)
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/nouvelles-sonorites-du-ud/
LOCATION:Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand – Petit auditorium\, Paris\, France
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240213T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240213T130000
DTSTAMP:20240622T152206Z
CREATED:20240622T152137Z
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SUMMARY:“Rethinking Musical Modernity in the MENA Region” Introduction
DESCRIPTION:The Beyond 1932 team introduce their project\, “Rethinking Musical Modernity in the MENA Region” in a seminar at CEDEJ\, Cairo
URL:https://1932muscon.kcl.ac.uk/event/308/
LOCATION:CEDEJ\, Cairo\, Egypt
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