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You are invited to attend
an
international weekend conference on Arabic
and Hebrew
strophic poetry and its Romance parallels.
Friday 5 October Sunday 7 October 2007
Website: http://www.geocities.com/muwashshah
OUTLINE
Ά The song form known as the muwashshah has a 1,000-year history in and around the Mediterranean basin. It originated in Andalus, where it was cultivated by both Arabic and Jewish poets and musicians. It enjoyed cult status in its time. Nowadays the muwashshah continues as a widely-enjoyed musical form throughout the Arab world, still preserving forms which go back to its Andalusi origins.
Ά The muwashshah and its associated verse-form, the zajal, had an important and largely undocumented influence on the forms of poetry and song in the Christian West. To some extent this has been examined in academic research on the kharjas of the muwashshahāt. Other aspects, however, have remained as unexplored territory.
Ά The purpose of our conference is to open new
ground in these areas of research, and to examine a range of issues ranging
from historical origins to present performance practices of the muwashshah
in countries of North Africa and the Middle East, among both Arab and Jewish
practitioners. For this years conference we are particularly interested in cultural
crossovers and transmissions between al-Andalus and early Europe.
Music-Studies and Romance-Studies contributions are particularly welcome.
Ά Our panel of speakers will include participants of the earlier Madrid [1989], Exeter [1990] and London [2004] kharja conferences. Our programme will combine the presentation of academic papers with live performance, audio-visual materials and a Saturday-night concert. Edited proceedings of the conference will be published in book form.
[Proceedings of the 2004 SOAS conference can be ordered via the link above]
Registration by e-mail to muwashshah [ @ ] soas.ac.uk
or by post to:
Ed Emery
[Muwashshah Conference]
Peterhouse
Cambridge CB2 1RD
or by fax to: 0044 [0] 870 133 0145
Programme of the 2007 Conference
Programme of the 2004 Conference
Conference organised with the support of the
Music Department, School of Oriental and African
Studies [SOAS], University of London
and the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance
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updated: 18.vii.07