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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Seminar - Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Ce
 ntury Algeria - Dr Stephen Wilford\, Junior Research Fellow\, Wolfson/Rese
 arch Associate\, Faculty of Music
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DTEND:20191127T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The first three decades of the twentieth century were a time o
 f significant importance and change in French-ruled colonial Algeria. A Fr
 ench politics that was increasingly shaped by anti-Semitism and European e
 xceptionalism coincided with a growing desire among sections of Algerian s
 ociety for self-determination\, and ultimately liberation from the colonia
 l regime. \n\nMusically\, this was a time in which European record compani
 es made some of the first recordings of Algerian musics\, and popular styl
 es such as raï and chaabi began to emerge in urban cosmopolitan centres s
 uch as Constantine and Algiers. However\, for most French citizens there w
 as little opportunity to directly encounter Algerian musics and musicians 
 prior to the Second World War. Their understanding of music in colonial Al
 geria was thus shaped by reports and images in the popular press\, and\, i
 n particular\, by the photographs that appeared on postcards and other vis
 ual media.\n\nIn this paper\, I aim to explore the role that music played 
 in shaping interactions and encounters across the Mediterranean\, connecti
 ng Algeria and France. Drawing upon recordings and postcard images of musi
 c and musicians from the period\, I ask how colonialism controlled and alt
 ered musical practices in Algeria at the time? Furthermore I interrogate w
 hy music and sound were so important to both the French colonial regime in
  North Africa and to ordinary Algerian citizens living under colonial rule
 .\n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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