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Marginalized Moor’s Music and Misunderstanding

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dc.contributor.author Sanjeewa, Manoj
dc.contributor.author Samarasinghe, Kamani
dc.contributor.author Nethsinghe, Rohan
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-11T07:38:13Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-11T07:38:13Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation Sanjeewa, Manoj, Samarasinghe, Kamani, Nethsinghe, Rohan (2023), Marginalized Moor’s Music and Misunderstanding, 12th Symposium of the ICTMD study group on music and minorities with a joint day with the study group on indigenous music and dance, Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/27305
dc.description.abstract This research video documentary presents the story of a marginalized ethnic/cultural minority group in Sri Lanka that lives in the Eastern Province. This people, known as Moors, originating from Middle Eastern countries and India, arrived in Sri Lanka during the seventh century AD, bringing along their cultural traditions and customs. In Sri Lanka, they have established a unique characteristic way of life and a distinctive form of Islamic culture. They adopted Tamil as the language of communication. Performing arts and musical practices of this group are at risk and rapidly diminishing because of religious ideologies of strict Muslim communities/leaders and the marginalization from other cultural groups. In this narrative ethnographic study, we explore why music and performing arts practices of this particular group of Sri Lankan Muslims who live in Ampara are not observable and what are the contributing factors, in order to sustain cultural practices for the future generations. During the field visits, interviews and discussions were used to further interpret the data recorded on video. Currently, we do thematic analysis of the collected data. Our 20-minute long documentary presents important findings from a part of our research. en_US
dc.publisher Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka en_US
dc.title Marginalized Moor’s Music and Misunderstanding en_US


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