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Tuesday, December 24 • 09:20 - 10:20
Popular music and politics in the Middle East (2 of 4)

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Perhaps you know your Ehud Banai and Hadag Nahash, but do you know your Zohar Argov and Eyal Golan? What's that music that always seems to be playing in Israeli taxis and corner shops? In this session we'll look at 'musiqa mizrahit' and how the music of Jews who immigrated from Arab lands fits into the Israeli musical mosaic.
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Abigail Wood

University of Haifa
Abigail teaches ethnomusicology at Haifa University; until December 2013 she also held the Joe Loss Lectureship in Jewish Music at SOAS in London. She researches sound in public spaces in Jerusalem's Old City and is interested in what sound and music can tell us about complex, conflicted... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2013 09:20 - 10:20 GMT
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