Looking at the 'Other' through the Ear: Contemporary Traces of Protectorate Politics through Music
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Festschrift for Professor Mohammed Kenbib
Publisher
Université Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco. Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines
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Book chapter
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Duncan, V. Looking at the 'Other' through the Ear: Contemporary Traces of Protectorate Politics through Music. Université Mohammed V of Rabat, Morocco. Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, Festschrift for Professor Mohammed Kenbib. [Book chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55916
Abstract
Inspired by Kenbib’s Les Protégés (1996) this article will develop an exploration of the way Spanish protectorate scholars used musicology to “look” at their Jewish protégés in Morocco and how traces of this scholarly gaze remain in place until today. Through an exploration of various works from the time of the protectorate and others from after Independence, I will show how protectorate tropes continue to operate within the manners in which the Spanish study and sometimes ignore the music of Moroccan Jews. Some will claim Jewish music for their own nationalistic projects, others disengage from Moroccan Jewish repertoires, showing a general political indifference towards the cultural and intellectual particularity of Jews and most importantly the very Moroccan experience of their musical expression.
Sponsorship
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) ERC (758221)
Embargo Lift Date
2100-01-01
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55916
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