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= Tuesday (11a) = | |||
Note: On Tuesday March 19 Dr Karim Gillani will join us; please briefly review the [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccewiki/index.php/Other_Shi%CA%BFa_groups_and_practices#Tuesday_(9a) readings and viewings I distributed for him previously]. He has also kindly shared links to his own music, which you may like to listen to prior to his visit: | Note: On Tuesday March 19 Dr Karim Gillani will join us; please briefly review the [https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/ccewiki/index.php/Other_Shi%CA%BFa_groups_and_practices#Tuesday_(9a) readings and viewings I distributed for him previously]. He has also kindly shared links to his own music, which you may like to listen to prior to his visit: | ||
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6) Ali Guyum Ali Joyam: I call Ali, I seek Ali, Lyrics: Dervish Amir Hayati: | 6) Ali Guyum Ali Joyam: I call Ali, I seek Ali, Lyrics: Dervish Amir Hayati: | ||
https://youtu.be/elI8oKljnGA?si=d_KHaVPZKIcuiOG0 | https://youtu.be/elI8oKljnGA?si=d_KHaVPZKIcuiOG0 | ||
== Read == | |||
Read Hamel, Chouki El. 2008. “[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40206641 Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of the Gnawa Spiritual Group in Morocco],” ''The Journal of African History'' 49 (2): 241–60. (On https://www.jstor.org/) | |||
You need not submit anything for today however (just one written submission is due on Thursday). | |||
== Class == | |||
Dr Karim Gillani's presentation. | |||
= Thursday (11b) = | |||
Zar in Iran | |||
== Due == | |||
* Watch [https://ualberta.yuja.com/V/Video?v=1016640&node=5436417&a=214307935&preload=false Afro Iranian Lives], a documentary produced and directed by Dr. Behnaz Mirzai. Born and raised in Iran, Mirzai moved to Canada in 1997, where she studied slavery and the African Diaspora in Iran. | |||
* Read "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1161315 Slavery, Possession and History: The Construction of the Self among Slave Descendants in the Sudan]", by G. P. Makris. ''Africa: Journal of the International African Institute'', Vol. 66, No. 2 (1996), pp. 159-182. https://doi.org/10.2307/1161315 and on https://www.jstor.org/ | |||
Review the Hamel, Mirzai, and Makris in 3-5 paragraphs, critiquing and contrasting the representations and comparing the histories and musical-ritual-spiritual phenomena. | |||
== Class == | |||
Revision as of 19:56, 15 March 2024
Tuesday (11a)
Note: On Tuesday March 19 Dr Karim Gillani will join us; please briefly review the readings and viewings I distributed for him previously. He has also kindly shared links to his own music, which you may like to listen to prior to his visit:
1) Daur-e-Hayyat: Time of Life: lyrics: Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar https://youtu.be/uTZM4UL5lyg?si=TXV5cnbsvWRufVSc
2) Chal Chal Bulleya: Let’s Go Bulleya: Poet: Bulleh Shah: https://youtu.be/Z4TuignggEE?si=FLqlneAou_QMPhRs
3) Jab Ishq Sikhta hai: When Love teaches you: Lyrics: Allama Iqbal: https://youtu.be/Z_axjWaGxjM?si=MF3-y6k39T3orgNs
4) Aql and Ishq: Intellect and Love: Lyrics: Allama Iqbal: https://youtu.be/3HPTd76QK-8?si=eqd6rE795vdEKdju
5) Ali Fakhre Bani Adam: Ali is the Pride of Mankind: Lyrics: Mir Anees: https://youtu.be/0uJTPzpGaYw?si=5lcLytyftW08cR-U
6) Ali Guyum Ali Joyam: I call Ali, I seek Ali, Lyrics: Dervish Amir Hayati: https://youtu.be/elI8oKljnGA?si=d_KHaVPZKIcuiOG0
Read
Read Hamel, Chouki El. 2008. “Constructing a Diasporic Identity: Tracing the Origins of the Gnawa Spiritual Group in Morocco,” The Journal of African History 49 (2): 241–60. (On https://www.jstor.org/)
You need not submit anything for today however (just one written submission is due on Thursday).
Class
Dr Karim Gillani's presentation.
Thursday (11b)
Zar in Iran
Due
- Watch Afro Iranian Lives, a documentary produced and directed by Dr. Behnaz Mirzai. Born and raised in Iran, Mirzai moved to Canada in 1997, where she studied slavery and the African Diaspora in Iran.
- Read "Slavery, Possession and History: The Construction of the Self among Slave Descendants in the Sudan", by G. P. Makris. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 66, No. 2 (1996), pp. 159-182. https://doi.org/10.2307/1161315 and on https://www.jstor.org/
Review the Hamel, Mirzai, and Makris in 3-5 paragraphs, critiquing and contrasting the representations and comparing the histories and musical-ritual-spiritual phenomena.