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SUMMARY:‘Quelle émotion\, quelle sensation!’: Listening for the Past 
 in Eastern Paris\, 1931 - Dr Stephen Wilford (Faculty of Music\, Universit
 y of Cambridge &amp\; Wolfson College Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:The 1931 Exposition coloniale internationale (International Co
 lonial Exhibition)\, held in the Bois de Vincennes in eastern Paris\, was 
 perhaps the largest and most ‘successful’ celebration of European colo
 nialism to be held in the twentieth century. The event brought musicians f
 rom across the colonial empire to the French capital\, where they performe
 d to millions of paying visitors. At the same time\, concerts of Western A
 rt Music were held in the newly built Salle des fêtes (today the Palais d
 e la Porte Dorée\, home of the ‘National Museum of the History of Immig
 ration’). Popular musicians of the time wrote songs about the exposition
 \, and performed at the event\, often launching commercially-successful ca
 reers. In this presentation\, I explore how music\, and sound more broadly
 \, shaped the soundscape of the event and the sonic experiences of musicia
 ns and audiences in attendance. I interrogate the role of sound at the exp
 osition in negotiating binaries: between coloniser and colonised\, ‘West
 ’ and ‘Other’\, high and low art\, Christianity and Islam\, and trad
 ition and modernity. Through ‘sonic excavation’\, I seek to reconstruc
 t and critique the soundworld of eastern Paris in 1931\, highlighting the 
 importance of such exhibitions for both the European colonial project and 
 emerging anti-colonial movements.\n\nRegister "here":https://wolfson-cam-a
 c-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/2616184958369/WN_jF8Jx90RQRumcm0xWbNUzQ
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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