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Topic: The Spanish-Morocco corridor: music, politics, and anti-extremist cultural policies
Speaker: Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz
Spain and Morocco share land and aqueous borders, in addition to having pockets of populations living in each other's countries. Linguistically, culturally, and musically they are, and have been for centuries, deeply intertwined. This lecture will discuss how music and politics have been used in recent years to stem radicalisation by celebrating musical policies of religious and cultural diversity.
The advance reading for this session is:
- Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (2021) ‘The bright side of identity: music, crossing borders and the war on terror’. In D. Benmayer and R. Taylor (eds) Age of confidence: The new Jewish culture wave. Jewish Renaissance 20th anniversary volume. Cheltenham: The History Press
About the speaker
Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge and Peterhouse, currently working on Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar. An active member of the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum, she has an international performance career as a singer of Moroccan Jewish repertoires. The New York Times described her as “a kind of one-woman roving museum of her own”.
More about Vanessa (via the Faculty of Music website (music.cam.ac.uk)
This event is part of the CIP Summer Colloquy on Religious relations and sound (3 July to 7 August, 2023). Attendance is restricted to those participating in the Colloquy.