Rachel Harris, Mukaddas Mijit, Aziz Isa Elkun

This strand attends to human mobilities impelled by political violence and repression, the experience of migrants and the role of music-making in precarious lives; how music-making meets everyday needs for intimacy and belonging across borders, and the intersections of artistic and activist projects undertaken by migrants. Working with a transnational network of exile Uyghur Sufi devotees, we will document their cross-border histories, and the memories of religious and maqām-based musical practice which they preserve. We will explore changing attitudes to national canons among young Uyghur migrants and engage with projects to re-interpret maqām in the context of new creative projects incorporating electronic music, dance and spoken word.

 

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