Description
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural significance of networks of experimenting musicians and cultural institutions that collaboratively challenge aesthetic assumptions on music produced by musicians with kin-relations to the Arabic-speaking world. The study of popular music from the MENA region has long been dominated by narratives that not only reproduce orientalisatising and politicising stereotypes of musicians but subsume their musical output under the umbrella of "Arabic music" and "sounds of resistance". This paper will explore how experimental music projects and festivals across Germany and Arabic-speaking countries are able to bring discussions on neo-orientalism in the public discourse by offering an insight in experimental musicking and affective encounters between musicians, audiences and curators that influence the ways in which musicians disguise their identity when they want to and use their cultural capital and imagined markers of Arab identity when they need to. The resulting experimental music projects illustrate how migratory aesthetics in contemporary cultural production can create opportunities for changing discourses and commercial, as well as academic, narratives on music from the MENA region.| Period | 30 Apr 2021 |
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| Event title | Music and Intercultural Practice Symposium, University of Hull |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Hull, United KingdomShow on map |