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Facing Shores: Baloch Music on the Arabian Peninsula

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dc.contributor.author Murer, George
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-11T07:41:57Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-11T07:41:57Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation Murer George (2023), Facing Shores: Baloch Music on the Arabian Peninsula, 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/123456789/27309
dc.description.abstract Edited from footage shot during my doctoral research (conducted in Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait between 2014 and 2017), this film surveys Baloch cultural life in the Eastern Arabian Peninsula through the lens of music. I contrast the roles of literary associations and patronage networks with local community rhythms and the importance of hereditary musicians habitually brought on sponsored visits from Makran, the portion of Balochistan that extends inland from the Arabian Sea/Gulf of Oman coast between Karachi and the Straits of Hormoz. Whether framed as a core site for Baloch diaspora or as an actual extension of Balochistan into the adjacent cultural space, the Arab Gulf states loom large in a greater Baloch cultural infrastructure, especially considered the threats to Baloch culture and identity poised by the internal politics and policies of Iran and Pakistan. I combine interviews with musicians, poets, and cultural activists with musical and ceremonial performances—at wedding parties, culture days and heritage celebrations, mashaira (literary salons), and spirit possession ceremonies. My aim is to convey an intimate sense of the multidimensional facets of Baloch culture that have taken hold in the afluent post-maritime coastal metropolis of the twenty-first century Gulf region and to provide a unique window on ongoing trans-Gulf circuits at a time when the tensions and geopolitical divide between both sides is particularly acute. en_US
dc.publisher Department of fine arts, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka en_US
dc.title Facing Shores: Baloch Music on the Arabian Peninsula en_US


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