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SUMMARY:Book launch & discussion: Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy i
 n Somaliland - Christina Woolner (Cambridge)\, Amina-Bahja Ekman (UCL)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240515T160000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240515T173000
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DESCRIPTION:An intimate account of everyday life in Somaliland\, explored 
 through an ever-evolving musical genre of love songs.\n\nAt first listen\,
  both music and talk about love are conspicuously absent from Somaliland
 ’s public soundscapes. The lingering effects of war\, the contested plac
 e of music in Islam\, and gendered norms of emotional expression limit opp
 ortunities for making music and sharing personal feelings. But while Chris
 tina J. Woolner was researching peacebuilding in Somaliland’s capital\, 
 Hargeysa\, she kept hearing snippets of songs. Almost all of these\, she l
 earned\, were about love. In these songs\, poets\, musicians\, and singers
  collaborate to give voice to personal love aspirations and often painful 
 experiences of love-suffering. Once in circulation\, the intimate and hear
 tfelt voices of love songs provide rare and deeply therapeutic opportuniti
 es for dareen-wadaag (feeling-sharing). In a region of political instabili
 ty\, these songs also work to powerfully unite listeners on the basis of s
 hared vulnerability\, transcending social and political divisions and open
 ing space for a different kind of politics.\n \nTaking us from 1950s recor
 dings preserved on dusty cassettes to new releases on YouTube and live per
 formances at Somaliland’s first postwar music venue—where the author h
 erself eventually takes the stage—Woolner offers an account of love song
 s in motion that reveals the capacity of music to connect people and feeli
 ngs across time and space\, creating new possibilities for relating to one
 self and others.\n\nhttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo
 205552325.html\nSpeakers:\nChristina Woolner (Cambridge)\, Amina-Bahja Ekm
 an (UCL)
LOCATION:13 Bevington Road (Seminar room\, African Studies Centre)\, 13 Be
 vington Road OX2 6NB
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