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Modal Migration, Maqām Beyond Nation

International conference on post-national, trans-border maqām practices, musical mobility, cosmopolitanism, canon formation, and border-crossing creativity across Africa & Asia. Ethnographic, archival, analytical, practice-based, film & performance approaches welcome.

📍 SOAS University of London
📅 17–18 September 2026

Deadline: 30/04/2026

mailto:[email protected]
https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/maqam-beyond-nation

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Maqām Beyond Nation 

Maqām Beyond Nation explores a field of music-making that stretches from North Africa to Central Asia; a set of historically fluid and inter-connected creative practices which were transformed under 20th century nationalisms into fixed repertoires.

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