Nov
06
Friday
Conference - Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Registration from 9.30am
PROGRAMME
Registration from 9.30am
9.45am - Welcome
Session 1 - 9.50 - 11.30am, Room AG09Julian Harris (Oxford University)
The Role of Music in the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979
Laudan Nooshin (City University London)
'Green is the Colour …': Musical Responses to the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections
11.30am - 12noon tea/coffee
Session 2 - 12noon - 12.50pm, Room AG09
Thomas Solomon (University of Bergen)
"The Girl's Voice in Turkish Rap": Gender and Vocality in the Music of Ayben
12.50 - 2pm Lunch break
Piano Recital - 2.15-3.15pm, Performance Space
A Journey Through the Piano Music of Iran
Tara Kamangar http://www.tarakamangar.com
3.15 - 3.45pm tea/coffee
Session 3 - 3.45 - 5.30pm, Room AG09
Leili Sreberny Mohammadi (UCL)
Home and Away: Music Listening and the BBC in Iran
Claire Launchbury (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Animating Music and Memory in the Context of Collective Amnesia: Beirut 1982 Revisited
Film screening - 5.45-7.30pm, AG09
Screening of The Glass House (2008), a film by Hamid Rahmanian and Melissa Hibbard.
The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum 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.)
Advance booking is requested via Valerie James at music@sas.ac.uk; a contribution to costs of £10 is requested on the door. Attendance for students and the unwaged is free.