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SUMMARY:Ya Lalla: The Digital Sphere &amp\; the Sensory: A Platform on Jud
 eo-Arabic Songs for Birth from the Moroccan Sahara - Dr Vanessa Paloma Elb
 az (Research Associate\, Faculty of Music\; Peterhouse College)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:‘Wolfson College Cambridge’s Humanities Society and the ER
 C-funded project Past and Present Musical Encounters Across the Strait of 
 Gibraltar and pleased to host this joint event.’\n\nWomen’s voices in 
 the Maghreb have functioned as communal subterfuge to the colonial project
  of controlling sound and action. Their core importance for minority group
 s in ensuring transmission\, fertility and group cohesion make a powerful 
 case for what may appear to outsiders as a simple and unstable musical tra
 dition. Dr. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz recently launched the trilingual (English
 \, French and Arabic) website yalalla.org.uk as part of the ERC project Pa
 st and Present Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar together 
 with Cambridge AHIF\, Cambridge Digital Humanities\, Digirati\, the Mimoun
 a Foundation\, Matanel\, and the Alliance Israélite Universelle.\n   \nTh
 e choice to use material from Jewish women's Saharan oral traditions on bi
 rth and fertility for this pilot project is firmly rooted in the core role
  of women’s songs\, celebrations\, protection and fertility in Morocco\,
  regardless of geographical\, religious or social position. The process of
  bringing a sensorial communal tradition based in orality to an interactiv
 e digital platform highlight both its heightened state of fragility of tra
 nsmission and its enduring continuity.\n   \nThis launch is an initial pil
 ot for KHOYA: Jewish Morocco Sound Archive\, a project Dr. Elbaz began in 
 2012 to gather\, digitise\, and classify the sounds and oral histories of 
 the Jewish presence in Morocco.\n\nAbout the Speaker\nVanessa Paloma Elbaz
  is Research Associate at the Faculty of Music and Peterhouse on the ERC p
 roject Past and Present Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar.
  Former Fulbright Senior Research Fellow\, Posen Fellow\, Broome and Allen
  Fellow and TALIM Fellow\, she is Vice-Chair of the Mediterranean Music St
 udy group of the ICTM\, on the board of the Jewish Music Institute\, and t
 he Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies. Dr. Elbaz rec
 eived her PhD from the CERMOM\, Sorbonne Paris Cité. Her most recent publ
 ication “Imagining a sonic al-Andalus through sound\, bones\, and blood:
  the case of Jewish music in Morocco and Spain” addresses sonic sensoria
 lity through lineage. \n\n*No need to book for in-person attendance.* To a
 ttend remotely\, please "register":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webin
 ar/register/WN_t5-ELuw0TEmbS_KHDQ4BGg to receive webinar access details.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room
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