UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
GOLDSMITHS AFGHANISTAN MUSIC UNIT
MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA MUSIC FORUM
RECENT WORK ON THE MUSIC OF AFGHANISTAN
Friday November 7th 2008
Room N336, Senate House, London WC1E
9.30am – 6.15pm
PROGRAMME
Registration from 9.30am
9.45am - Welcome
Session 1 (10 - 11.45am)
John Baily (Goldsmiths)
Lâreh, naghma-ye kashâl, naghma-ye chahârtuk: A genre of Kabuli art music
Razia Sultanova (SOAS)
Uzbek music in Afghanistan
11.45am – 12.10pm tea/coffee
Session 2 (12.10 – 1pm)
Amina Yousofi (BBC World Service)
The Zamzama women’s music programme of the BBC World Service Afghanistan Stream
1pm – Lunch break
Session 3 (2.30 - 4.15pm)
Christer Irgens-Møller (Denmark)
Music of Nuristan 1953-1970. A documentation of an eradicated culture. Recordings of the late Klaus Ferdinand and Lennart Edelberg.
Veronica Doubleday (Brighton)
The Beloved and the Loved One: Gender issues and expressions of love in performances using chahârbeiti quatrains
4.15pm Final discussion
4.30 – 5.15pm tea/coffee
5.15 – 6.15pm
The day will close with a performance of Afghan music by Veronica Doubleday and John Baily
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 interdiscplinarity, 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.