Me gustaría tanto ir...

Desde que hará una década larga la descubrí en la fonoteca del Museo de Antropología de Osaka soy un fanático de la música de Afganistán, tanto que siento tristeza por no estar en Londres el próximo noviembre cuando se celebre la jornada que tiene a esa desconocida y extraordinaria representación artística como protagonista. Por si alguno de vosotros se ve con más suerte que yo, aquí os incluyo la información que me acaba de llegar gracias a la amabilidad del Dr. J. P. E. Harper-Scott, profesor del Departamento de Música del Royal Holloway, y a su lista de internet. Si alguien va, espero un relato detallado...

ADVANCE NOTICE

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.