Yallah 2024 – Judeo-Arabic Music Conference

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Student/Concessions: £50
General Public: £60
LOCATION: SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh St, London. WC1H 0XG
Conference tickets includes admission to the evening event with DJ Sharouh

Hosted by Joe Loss Reader in Jewish Music Dr. Ilana Webster-Kogen (SOAS University of London) & JMI Trustee Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (University of Cambridge)

JMI’s Judeo-Arabic Music conference returns for the second edition, featuring a day and evening of a keynote speaker, academic papers presented from the world’s leading international scholars, workshops from practitioners and closing the evening with music from Parisian French-Algerian Producer & DJ Sharouh.

“Joy & Sorrow in Judeo-Arabic Music and Ritual”

Music marks opposing emotional expressions of joy and sorrow in ritual celebrations. 
In Jewish life, rituals embody symbolic action and engender a processual flow (Turner 1967:149–50), sometimes invoking joy and sorrow within the same text. During moments of pain and sorrow, ritual communities equally rely on performers and practitioners to guide communities through feelings of catharsis, enlightenment, joy and exhilaration.  

The 2024 Yallah conference will feature presented papers from international academics on music of joy and sorrow from the varied diasporas of Arabic-speaking Jews. Repertoires will include the full spectrum of vernacular, paraliturgical and liturgical repertoires. We have invited multi-disciplinary approaches to this discussion from ethnomusicology and sound studies to comparative literature, history, religious studies, anthropology, gender studies and others.

Academic presenters:

Edoardo Marcarini
Dr Sara Manasseh
Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen
Mohammed Ghrab & Yoav Oved
Sarah Perez
Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Prof. Ruth Davis
Dr. Sami Everett
Isaac Montagu & Nina Randisi
Dr. Avi Eilam Amzallag

*The programme will be updated regularly.

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