Yallah: Judeo-Arabic Music Conference (11th February, 2024, SOAS University of London)

Yallah 2024 – Judeo-Arabic Music Conference – Sunday 11th February – SOAS University of London| 9:30 am – 6:00 pm 

Book here: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/yallah-2024-judeo-arabic-music-conference/

If you missed yesterday’s early booking deadline, please use coupon YALLAH24 at checkout to get £10 off general public admission. (please share with colleagues)

Conference ticket includes access to the evening event: https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/yallah-2024-dj-sharouh/

Yallah 2024: DJ Sharouh – Jewish Music Institute Mediterranean DJ / Producer based in Paris, Sharouh invites electronic to mix with music from the Maghreb to the Middle East, via Greece and Turkey. In a process of cultural rewriting, she works on […] www.jmi.org.uk

About:

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
Sara Manasseh
Ilana Webster-Kogen
Mohammed Ghrab
Yoav Oved
Sarah Perez
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Ruth Davis
Sami Everett*

If you have any questions or would like some more information then please get in contact.

Thank you and have a good week,

Gil

Gil Karpas – Online, Events & Marketing Manager

JMI – Jewish Music Institute, SOAS University of London, WC1H 0XG

Tel: 0207 898 4307 | Gil.Karpas@jmi.org.uk