College:
Magdalen College
Course:
DPhil Oriental Studies
Contact:
yara.salahiddeen@magd.ox.ac.uk ; www.yarasalahiddeen.com
Educational Background:
MMus Ethnomusicology, SOAS University of London - Thesis: Pioneers of Change - The Case of Munira Al-Mahdiyya
Recipient of the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship (DPhil)
Research Interests:
Co-supervised by Professors Marilyn Booth and Walter Armbrust
My DPhil research looks at the music-making and listening practices of urban Egyptian society from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Against the backdrop of the Nahda or 'Arab Renaissance' and the early recording era, I investigate the musical 'wasla', the concept of tarab and its practitioners, asking how these both reflected and influenced social change and popular attitudes to nation and modernity.
General interests: Arab musical practices- historic and contemporary; Arab cultural and intellectual history; Ottoman Egypt; the Nahda (Renaissance)
Recent Publications and/or Conferences:
October 2017 - ‘The Oxford Maqam Project’, Postcolonial Seminar Series, English Department, University of Kent, UK
March 2017 - 'Egypt’s Living Heritage: Community Engagement in Recreating the Past’, Makan Egyptian Centre for Culture and Arts, Cairo, Egypt
November 2016 - ‘Recording with a Phonograph,’ Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, City University, London
February 2016 - ‘Recording with a Phonograph’, Uludağ Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuvarı, Bursa, Turkey