#  Egyptian Composer Aziz El-Shawan’s Career and the Loeb Musical Library Collection of El Shawan's Musical Manuscripts  

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 28, 2018** 

 04:15PM - 06:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Davison Room, Loeb Music Library, 3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 **The Harvard Music Department** and the **Center for Middle Eastern Studies** present

 **Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco**

   ![Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/cmes/files/castelo-branco.jpg?itok=85w7DccQ) 

 

  
Professor of Ethnomusicology, Director of the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; and President of the International Council for Traditional Music. *Please join us for a reception following the talk in the Spalding Room, Loeb Music Library.*

 The daughter of prominent Egyptian composer Aziz El-Shawan, Professor Castelo-Branco received her doctorate from Columbia University, taught at New York University (1979-1982), and was visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton University and Chicago University. She has carried out field research in Portugal, Egypt and Oman resulting in publications on: cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity and music and conflict.

 Recent publications include: *Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX* (4 vols) (ed.). *Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores/Temas e Debates* (2010); *Music and Conflict*. (co-editor with John O’Connell and author of the Epilogue), Urbana: Illinois University Press (2010); *Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultante of Oman* (with Dieter Christensen). Berlin: *VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung* (2009); The “Politics and Aesthetics of Two-Part Singing in Southern Alentejo,” in Ardian Ahmedaja & Gerlinde Haid (eds.) *European Voices: Polyphonic Singing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean*. Viena: Bohlau (2008). She has been president of the International Council for Traditional Music since 2013; and served as: Vice President of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2007 – 2009) and of the International Council for Traditional Music (1997-2001 and 2009-2013); Vice Chancellor of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2007-2009). Castelo-Branco is a recipient of the Glarean Award for music research of the Swiss Musicological Society (2013), the Gold & Silver Medals for Cultural merit of the City Halls of Lisbon and Cascais, respectively (2012 & 2007), and the Pro-Author Award of the Portuguese Author’s Society (2010).

 This talk & reception are free and open to the public.

 **Co-sponsors:** Harvard Department of Music, Center for Middle Eastern Studies  
**Contact:** [Lesley Bannatyne](mailto:bannatyn@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ North Africa ](/research-region/north-africa)
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