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Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Christopher Silver)

Oct 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Royce 306, 10745 Dickson Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
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Thursday, October 20, 2022 • 306 Royce • 2 PM

Christopher Silver (McGill University) with Aomar Boum (UCLA)

Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Maurice Amado Program in Sephardic Studies

If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them.

Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish History and Culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History from UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com, a digital archive of 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.

Q&A with Chris Silver

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Date:
Oct 20, 2022
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Organizer

UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Phone
(310) 825-5387
Email
levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu
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Venue

Royce 306
10745 Dickson Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
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