6 Dec 2018 4:45pm - 6:00pm SG1, Alison Richard Building

Description

In scholarly and popular conversations about the relationship between Muslims and Jews in the Maghrib and its diaspora, music seems to challenge discourses that would emphasize Muslim-Jewish conflict and Jews’ status as outsiders to the North African social fabric. Yet on closer inspection, Muslim-Jewish interactions around music, and the conversations about them, rarely escape the tropes of rivalry, marginality, and ambivalence that have long permeated discourse about the Muslim-Jewish interface in North Africa. Focusing on Algeria, this talk suggests that by paying attention to the implicit theories of relatedness embedded in these conversations, we can both account for the centripetal force of such tropes as well as imagine richer alternatives for understanding Muslim-Jewish interaction in the Maghrib and its diaspora.

 

This lecture by Jonathan Glasser (College of William and Mary) is part of the conference, 'Dynamic Maghribi Jewish-Muslim Interaction across the Performing Arts (1920-2020)'.

The event is free and open to all.

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