Music from the traditional cultures of Morocco, protagonists of a roundtable co-organized by a researcher from ICS
Sarali Gintsburg explains that the activity will be held in Rabat and is related to the reflection on including 'ayta jabaliya as part of UNESCO's intangible heritage.
PHOTO: María Jesús Ruiz
Sarali Gintsburg, Marie Curie researcher of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, co-organizes in Rabat a roundtable in which several experts will analyze the 'ayta jabaliya, music of the traditional cultures of Moroccan villages.
The activity will be held on November 15 and has been promoted jointly with the research center and programs of study Interdisciplinary on Jbala (CERIJ), at partnership with the Archives of Morocco.
The event gives continuity to another meeting held in July 2017 in Taounate, which was attended by historians, ethnographers, musicologists and archivists and managers of Morocco's intangible heritage. It thus takes up the reflection on including this genre as part of UNESCO's intangible heritage .
The roundtable in Rabat will be chaired by Mohamed Mezzine, president of CERIJ, and will focus on two axes. The first will be presented by Sarali Gintsburg and consists of a collective program of study of the 'ayta jabaliya. He will be accompanied by Nabil Benabdeljalil, composer, musicologist and professor at the School of Ben Msik. Abdelouahed Edahbi will also intervene and will present an overview of the contemporary players of this music in the northern provinces.
The case of the Middle Atlas dance of MoroccoZakariaa Tijani will present the second axis, which will deal with the conditions that allowed the Middle Atlas dance, taskiwin, to be recognized as a UNESCO intangible heritage.
Sarali Gintsburg studied Arabic language and Islamic programs of study at St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and received her B.A. in Arabic from the University of Helsinki (Finland). She holds a PhD in Humanities from Tilburg University (The Netherlands). She is currently working at School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (USA).
This course has been added to the project 'Public discourseThanks to a Marie Curie scholarship from the European Commission, this course has been incorporated into the ICS. Her research focuses on language formulas in poetry and everyday language - which is closely related to human creativity. She specializes in the oral poetic tradition in the Arab world and in general linguistics and sociolinguistics.