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 : Jews\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa"
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DESCRIPTION:Christopher Silver (McGill University) "Recording History: Jews
 \, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa"\n\nIn "Recor
 ding History\," Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music
  scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco\, Algeria\,
  and Tunisia. In doing so\, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim
  relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decad
 es\, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. 
 The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish m
 usicians\, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular s
 ongs broadcast on radio\, performed in concert\, and circulated on disc ca
 rried with them the power to delight audiences\, stir national sentiments\
 , and frustrate French colonial authorities. In asking what North Africa o
 nce sounded like\, Silver will introduce the Cornell community to a world 
 of many voices\, whose music defined their era and still resonates into ou
 r present.\n\nChristopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor i
 n Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill
  University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. Recipient of grants f
 rom the Posen Foundation\, the American Academy of Jewish Research\, the A
 merican Institute for Maghrib Studies\, and the Association for Recorded S
 ound Collections\, Silver is the author of numerous articles on North Afri
 can history and music\, including in the International Journal of Middle E
 ast Studies\, Jewish Social Studies\, and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the
  founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com\, a digital archive o
 f North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His 
 first book "Recording History: Jews\, Muslims\, and Music Across Twentieth
  Century North Africa" was published in June 2022 with Stanford University
  Press.\n\nSeries sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and Department o
 f Near Eastern Studies as part of the Jewish Histories of the Modern Middl
 e East lecture series. This lecture co-sponsored by the Department of Musi
 c.
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LOCATION:White Hall\, 110
SUMMARY:Jewish Histories of the Modern Middle East: "Recording History: Jew
 s\, Muslims\, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa"
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 rn_middle_east_recording_history_jews_muslims_and_music_across_twentieth-c
 entury_north_africa
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