Seminar: Land, Voice, Nation: the performance of Jewish-Muslim encounters through music in Morocco

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2022-02-01

Country: United Kingdom
City: Cambridge
  • Organizer

    Cambridge Interfaith Programme

  • Location

    Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge UK

  • Email

    [email protected]

Part of the Inter-Religious Relations seminar series at the University of Cambridge. This event takes place at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, with a small onsite audience. This academic lecture will also be livestreamed. Ethnomusicologist Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music) explores how the acoustic establishment of Jewish belonging and participation, and the reception of sonic allegiance help build a symbolic order that confirms the intrinsic relation of the Jew to the diverse nation in contemporary Morocco through the heritagization of a communal sounded voice. Jewish and Amazigh relationships to land and cycles, the shared tradition of Arabo-Andalusian repertoires which straddle liturgical and secular settings, women's music in the vernacular, and the recent increased public performance of Jewishness as an intrinsic element of the secular component of Morocco, are parts of a multi-faceted approach to mobilise these musical encounters against radicalisation.