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From the margins to mainstream – this is how Mizrahi music has often been described. What reads as a story of revivalist success is, under close scrutiny, rather a story of complete social, linguistic and musical shift into an age of musical post-vernacularity. Mizrakhi music thrives in post-modern, post-revival, post-vernacular amalgams, producing aesthetically pleasing, incredible performances and recordings, but musical vernacularity has been lost for the most part.
This course will engage with various questions regarding the past and present of Arab-Jewish musical cultures as well as cultural concepts of transfer and interference. It will analyse the social history of Mizrahi musics, women’s performance practices as bearers of traditions as well as innovators and analyse chosen pieces.
There is no need to read music, know Arabic, Turkish, Ladino or Hebrew when attending this course, but please inform me if you do know any of these languages in advance. If you play an instrument that you’d like to bring to class, please tell me well in advance as well. Thank you!
Thursday,
10th April 2025
Venue: Raum W401 (Lehrturm), Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 München
First Session
10:00-12:30
BREAK 12:30-14:00
Second Session
14:00-16:00
Friday, 11th April 2025
Venue: Raum W401 (Lehrturm), Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 München
Third Session
10:00-12:30
BREAK 12:30-14:00
Fourth Session
14:00-16.00
Diana Matut is a research fellow at the department for Jewish Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). She is director of the Old Synagogue – House of Jewish Culture in Essen and regularly teaches Jewish Music (and Old Yiddish) for the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, for the Aleph Cantorial Program and the Other Music Academy – Yiddish Summer Weimar.
She is a Jewish and Yiddish Studies scholar (having minored in Semitic Languages), as well as a musician. Her special interests are the history of Yiddish music and literature, questions relating to gender and performance practice as well as the interconnectivity between Jewish and non-Jewish musics, musicians and music-making.
