"Nearer to truth than words": Musical identity and womanhood in Afghanistan
Von der Medhen Recital Hall, Wednesday September 23, 12:20pm–1:10pm
Sadie Harrison is a composer and lecturer whose work is enriched particularly by the traditional cultures of Afghanistan, Lithuania, and the Northern Caucasus. This lecture will consider how music creates, expresses and controls the identity of women in Afghanistan, looking at female musicians from the 1970s before the Communist invasion until the present day as girls and women assert their musical rights and their womanhood despite the most extreme constraints. Recorded musical examples will include traditional songs and dances performed by celebrated Afghan women alongside Sadie's music written in 2015 especially for girls at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) and for US Ensemble Cuatro Puntos.
Harrison's talk is hosted by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Music Department in cooperation with the Women Composers Festival of Hartford and ensemble Cuatro Puntos.
For more information, contact: Penny Brandt at penny.brandt@uconn.edu 6-1634