Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past
| Dates: | 1 May 2024 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Workshop |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Samuel Llano |
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This workshop will study sound, broadly understood, as a political archive that mobilises the past to support different contemporary identity projects in the present. The event will begin by introducing the attendants to basic theory on the relationship between sound, music and memory. The speakers will then present two short, interrelated case studies for discussion. Llano will present a small selection of competing and overlapping accounts of the history of Andalusi music by Moroccan, Spanish and French musicologists, and will foreground the conflicting political motivations underpinning them. Machin-Autenrieth will examine the ways in which Moroccan musicians in Spain instrumentalise the Andalusi past through musical performance to address societal themes around integration, racism and national memory. The workshop will consider these two case studies to conceptualise sound as a multi-layered and palimpsestic “archive” of the memories of the different groups involved in its performance and transmission. The event will leave plenty of time for questions and relaxed discussion.
This event forms part of CIDRAL's Archives series for 2023-2024.
Speakers
Matthew Machin-Autenrieth
Organisation: University of Aberdeen
Samuel Llano
Organisation: University of Manchester
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A213A
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
