Event overview
'Emotional Expression in Women’s Music-Making in Afghanistan'
In this talk Veronica considers a range of emotions as expressed in women’s music-making in Afghanistan. These include romantic and familial love, sadness and separation, celebration, anger and protest, and humour. She draws particularly on her own ethnographic work with girls and women in the Persian language traditions of Herat (western Afghanistan). She also refers extensively to work by other scholars, including recent material collected separately by two young Afghan women in north-eastern Afghanistan. Veronica's main focus is on domestic and ritual music-making, linking songs and dances to the life experiences and expectations of girls and women.
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Veronica Doubleday is an expert on the music of women in Afghanistan. In the 1970s she undertook research on the lives, beliefs, friendships and activities of women in the city of Herat, while resident there with her husband John Baily (Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths and Head of the Afghanistan Music Unit). In Herat Veronica learnt to perform Afghan music (vocal and playing daireh frame drum) as a technique of ethnomusicological research. She has given concerts and academic presentations all around the world, most recently at Wesleyan University in their programme Muslim Women’s Voices (December 2014). Veronica is the author of a narrative ethnography, Three Women of Herat (1988); a book containing her translations of traditional Persian-language folk poetry I Cried on the Mountain Top (2010, and a number of articles and book chapters.
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The Music Research Series is designed to help postgraduate students advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community. Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music but of course undergraduates, music researchers, and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 14 Apr 2015 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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