Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation – an international conference
Hosted by Maqām Beyond Nation and the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Venue: SALT Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS University of London
Time: Thursday 17 September – Friday 18 September • 9am-5:30pm
This conference explores the contemporary mobilities, cosmopolitan settings, and cross-border potentials of the diverse but interlinked musical world of maqām. The conference works against the grain of twentieth century processes of national canon formation to restore our understanding of shared traditions of music-making, and to study contemporary border-crossing mobilities and revivals. We ask, what happens when forms of “national culture” break free from nation? What new forms of creativity, meaning and affect are forged through border -crossing moves? What local socio-political realities underlie them, what critical issues do they raise, and what methodologies can we employ to study them?
- Conference Programme:
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