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Nuptial chants and wedding laments
Culture · Friday, November 6 · 19:00 · Paris France
L'Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard
Free
In response to the Vive la mariée exhibition, the Institut du monde arabe organises a cycle of round-tables on the social, cultural and contemporary issues of marriage in the Arab world. In wedding ceremonies, chants give voice to multiple emotions, between celebration, nostalgia and symbolic mourning. From Yemen to the Rif, these repertoires, long transmitted mainly by women, are evolving today in contact with new musical practices. With: Jean Lambert, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, specialist in Yemeni and Arabian Music History of Arabic Music. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, research fellow a…
