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24 févr. 09 à 17:47, ***** a écrit :
Dear *******,
How are you? If you remember, we met up in **** while you were here last year and discussed my project on the violin in Arab music. Things are picking up for me in terms of research. I have a regular violin teacher again and have really started tapping into networks of prominent violin players.
You mentioned when we met that in order to join the Zaman al-Wasl forum (and possibly Zeryab), I would need a recommendation from you. Here is my information and a brief summary of my project:
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Ph.D. Candidate, Ethnomusicology
Music Department, University of California Santa Barbara
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My dissertation project explores the adoption and adaptation of the violin in Egyptian music. Considering historical circumstances, contemporary pedagogical practices, performance techniques and ideological constructions, I will examine both the musical and societal results of the instrument's inclusion in local music. Having been thus embraced and adapted, the violin at once exemplifies both the potentially homogenizing and productive effects of colonialism and globalization. I will also investigate the ways individual agents mediate local traditions and the influence and opportunities of the transnational political, economic and musical landscapes, at once attempting to signal their own local identities and that of the interconnected contemporary world. Through this process, the violin becomes an instrument for the individual and collective negotiation and articulation of modernity in contemporary Egypt.
I would be happy to share historical documents and recordings that I come across with the forum provided I have the right permissions, etc.
If I could trouble you to be in touch with the director of the forum, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks again and I hope this finds you well.
All the best,
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Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Music Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
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