Join the Center for Palestine Studies for a lecture demonstration by Tareq Abboushi,
with Taoufik Ben-Amor.

The past five decades have seen several deliberate efforts to archive Palestinian popular songs by initiatives such as The Palestinian Sound Archive, The Palestinian Folk Music Archive as well as music and dance troupes such as Al-Hannouneh and Al-Funoun and individual singers like Sanaa Moussa, Reem Kilani, Rim Banna, and many others. These songs, however, are not frozen in the archive, but are constantly reinterpreted musically and poetically with many variations and additions. Thus, these songs remain open and alive—a living archive of a collective memory.

VENUE
Scheps Library, Room 457,
Department of Anthropology,
Schermerhorn Extension

Advanced registration is required for all attendees, including CU/BC ID holders.

Tareq Abboushi is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and educator. After graduating with honors from William Paterson University with a Jazz Piano Performance degree, Abboushi decided to pursue the buzuq as a means to explore Arab Music. As a performer this led him to collaborate with such notable musicians as Simon Shaheen, Omar Farouk Tekbilek, Suad Massi, Abeer Nehme, and Lotfi Bouchnak. As an award winning composer, his diverse background can be heard across multiple genres ranging from classical Arab, to Jazz, Electronic, film scoring, dance projects, radio, television, as well as commissioned soundscape design for art projects. Abboushi’s discography includes two albums with his band SHUSMO, five albums with Amir ElSaffar, and appearances on many other albums including three with Grammy-winner Dan Zanes. His extensive experience in various styles of music has also made him an invaluable teacher, with a global profile including lectures at Columbia University, NYU, Juilliard, The Museum of the City of New York, Birzeit University, Agder University, and the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music.

Taoufik Ben-Amor is the Gordon Gray Jr Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, Columbia University. He specializes in Arabic language and linguistics, language and identity, Arab music, and music in Sufism. His research combines his interests in music, language and identity in the Arab world through the study of lyrics.