<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92118"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92177">Please forgive any cross-postings. This seems relevant to members of this listserv.</span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_90959" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_90958"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_90957"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92095"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92096"> <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Ed Emery <ed.emery@THEFREEUNIVERSITY.NET><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92140"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92139">To:</span></b> MUSICOLOGY-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92133"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92132">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 6, 2017 7:38 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92131"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_92130">Subject:</span></b> [MUSICOLOGY-ALL] Medieval music seminars at the Mill Pub, Cambridge - start Tuesday 17 January - 6.00-7.00pm<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483648666594_90956"><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>You are invited to a seminar in the back bar of the Mill Pub, Mill Lane,<br>Cambridge on Tuesday 17 January, 6.00-7.00pm.<br><br>[If you are unable to attend but would like to correspond on these matters,<br>feel free to drop me a line.]<br><br>For the past 10 years I have been exploring the idea that the<br>quintessentially European poetic form of the sonnet might have a genetic<br>relationship with the poetic / dance-song traditions of the Arabs and Jews<br>of<b> al-Andalus </b>(namely muwashshah and zajal).<br><br>My explorations have taken me far and wide. The elements include poetry,<br>song, dance, musicality, poetic duelling, border regimes, musical<br>instruments, Arabic and Jewish philosophy... I am particularly interested in<br>the capacity of song, music and dance to subvert established borders. Recent<br>researches have taken me to the "jungle" refugee camps of Calais, Dunkerque<br>and Kurdistan. It has been a fascinating journey - and it is a journey that<br>is continuing.<br><br>Every Tuesday evening during term time I shall present an hour-long seminar<br>in the pub's back bar, on various aspect of my researches. Below I list some<br>of the topics that will be covered. My interest is to build a community of<br>scholarship around these questions.<br><br>Admission is free. You are invited to join us. Only one thing I would ask -<br>if you wish to attend a given seminar, please write immediately and reserve<br>your place, because we only have a few places available.<br><br>To reserve a place, please write to:<br><a ymailto="mailto:ed.emery@soas.ac.uk" href="mailto:ed.emery@soas.ac.uk">ed.emery@soas.ac.uk</a><br><br>The first session will be on Tuesday 17 January. I shall present a brief<br>outline of the research project, and shall then present a paper on<br>"Arabising influences at the Sicilian court of Federico II".<br><br>By kind permission of the Mill management, the academic session will be<br>followed by a musical session in the bar. You can expect fiddles and flutes,<br>jigs and reels, and a song or two.<br><br>With a touch of humour, the title for the series is "Ed Emery's Musical<br>Academy @ The Mill".<br><br>Critical theory, beer, good food, and the best pub in Cambridge.<br><br>What better way to start the New Year...!<br><br>With best regards,<br><br>Ed Emery<br><br>____________<br><br>Upcoming topics will include:<br><br>The writings of Arab and Jewish philosophers and poets (notably Abraham Ibn<br>Ezra and Ibn al-'Arabi)<br><br>The cultural dynamics of the Sicilian court under Federico II<br><br>The sonneteering practices of Dante Alighieri and his friends<br><br>"Vita Nuova"... "Tarjuman al-Ashwaq"... Canzoniere and diwan<br><br>The poetic duelling traditions of the medieval towns of Northern France<br><br>Circle dance traditions of the Mediterranean basin<br><br>Hidden trajectories of medieval verse forms<br><br>The inner life of 6/8 and 9/8 jigs<br><br>The legacy of instruments such as drums, rebecs and hautbois<br><br>Research insights from field work in the refugee camps of Calais, Dunkerque<br>and Kurdistan.<br><br>A challenge to accepted notions of the performance practices of medieval<br>song.<br><br>The "no borders" potential of song, music and dance<br><br>Facebook page:<br>www.facebook.com/EdEmeryMusicalAcademy/<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>