This webinar featuring Dr Samuel Everett presents ongoing research on the Liminal Waterway Countercultures project, within the subproject Aqueous Entanglements: Audiovisual Migration Histories through Mediterranean Marseille.
Liminal Judeoarabic Cultures in Belsunce, Marseille
What can music tell us about exile, it's connections to water and the changing lives of a port city?
This talk takes us to Belsunce, the downtown Marseille neighbourhood that has long been a liminal portside place of arrival, transit and departure. At the heart of the story is Tam Tam, a tiny Belsunce record label and shop, where Jacques Derderian recorded and circulated the music of exilé Marseille. Through Tam Tam, we can hear the ghorba: the music and feeling of exile, separation and life away from home, across the seas.
Dr Everett focuses on Judeo-Arab musical cultures, a repertoire that unsettles the categories we often use to tell Mediterranean histories. Jewish and Arab, Algerian and French, local and diasporic, these recordings capture a Marseille made through movement across water and allow us to listen again to a neighbourhood whose histories are still hiding in plain sight.
Samuel Sami Everett is a Researcher at the University of Southampton and Aix-Marseille Université. His research focuses on the historical-colonial and spatial-political dimensions of North African Jewish and Muslim identification. Trained in political and cultural anthropology, he has a degree from INALCO in North African Language and Culture (Arabic, Berber, Judeo-Arabic). His work is located between North African, Middle Eastern, Jewish and Islamic Studies of Diaspora, dynamic urban interreligious interaction and migratory trajectories as related to the Mediterranean Sea. Liminal Waterway Countercultures is based on an original idea by Everett and Ben Gidely who co-wrote the project with the help of Yvonne Živković.
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This webinar series presents work in progress from the transnational Liminal Waterway Countercultures research project. The project explores creative alternative ways of life that have emerged in edge spaces around Europe’s peripheral waterways, precariously weathering several interlocking crises. The webinars present our diverse sites, innovative research methods, and emerging findings. Each session lasts an hour and includes 25-minute presentations, followed by time for discussion. All welcome.
The project is funded through the HERA/CHANSE Humanities in Crisis programme by the AHRC, ANR, FCT, FWF and HRZZ.
