{"id":15727,"date":"2021-11-11T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=15727"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:14","slug":"music-blackness-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2021\/music-blackness-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Music & Blackness in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Music & Blackness in Morocco\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

On November 17, 2021 at 1:00pm Eastern<\/em>, Professor Cynthia J. Becker will be discussing her latest Book – Blackness in Morocco<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this groundbreaking book, Cynthia J. Becker addresses the historical consciousness of subaltern groups and how they give Blackness material form through modes of dress, visual art, religious ceremonies, and musical instruments in performance. Blackness in Morocco<\/em> complicates how we think about the institution of slavery and its impact on North African religious and social institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia J. Becker is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University. She is author of Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity<\/em>. Her writing has been published in many journals and edited volumes, including Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia Becker will be in conversation with Atiqa Hachimi<\/a> (U of Toronto) and Carolyn Ramzy<\/a> (Carleton University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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