From the margins to mainstream - this is how Mizrahi music has often been described. What reads as a story of revivalist success is, under close scrutiny, rather a story of complete social, linguistic and musical shift into an age of musical post-vernacularity. Mizrakhi music thrives in post-modern, post-revival, post-vernacular amalgams, producing aesthetically pleasing, incredible performances and recordings, but musical vernacularity has been lost for the most part.
This course will engage with various questions regarding the past and present of Arab-Jewish musical cultures as well as cultural concepts of transfer and interference. It will analyse the social history of Mizrahi musics, women's performance practices as bearers of traditions as well as innovators and analyse chosen pieces.
There is no need to read music, know Arabic, Turkish, Ladino or Hebrew when attending this course.
Masterclass with Dr. Diana Matut (Alte Synagoge Essen)
For more information, please visit the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies website.