Ms. Virginia Danielson

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  Also on display are books about the singer, including a biography written by Virginia Danielson, curator of the archive of world music at Harvard University.The recent documentary, Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt, was based on her book.Danielson says that Umm Kulthum's early religious training set the course for the singer's immaculate and nuanced diction.
  
  "She was born to a poor family," Danielson says, "and at the time Egypt was under British occupation, and virtually the only schools that were available or encouraged were religious schools.Now what you learned was to recite the Koran, and that tended to give people a profound appreciation for the sound of the language.And, of course, the Koran is written in very elegant Arabic.Umm Kulthum had a very powerful voice, equally strong from the lowest to the highest part of her range, and she was musically very inventive.She schooled herself musically by learning to command the Arab musical system and learning to improvise in that system the way a jazz musician would improvise using the Western system."
  
  Danielson also points to Umm Kulthum's great appreciation of fine poetry.
  
  "She had an ability to link musical improvisation to the meaning of the words that she was singing in such a way that the meaning was really felt by listeners.Many scholars say poetry is the art of the Arabs, and so to sing poetry well is something that will tend to garner great appreciation among Arabic-speaking listeners."
  
  Umm Kulthum was also a master at casting a spell over her audiences.In the documentary, there's a clip of Umm Kulthum singing, sometime in the 1940s or '50s, and the audience begins to sing back phrases to her.Danielson says it has to do with the Arab word tarab.
  
  "Tarab is a concept of enchantment," Danielson says.

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  Speakers will include Virginia Danielson, curator of the Archive of World Music and librarian of the Loeb Music Library of Harvard University; Anthony Seeger, curator and director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings; and Elizabeth Cohen of Cohen Acoustical, Inc.

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  Respondent: Dr. Virginia Danielson, Harvard University.Co-sponsored by the American Sephardi Federation.

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  This report includes the text of the three keynote presentations by Virginia Danielson of Harvard University; Elizabeth Cohen of Cohen Acoustical, Inc.; and Anthony Seeger of the University of California, Los Angeles.

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  The report also includes the text of the three keynote presentations by Virginia Danielson of Harvard University; Elizabeth Cohen of Cohen Acoustical, Inc.; and Anthony Seeger of the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as formal responses to the presentations and summaries of the discussions.

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  Virginia Danielson from Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, USA, eMail: vdaniels@fas.harvard.edu, has represented her institution for years now and would like to become an individual member as well, especially in order to receive publications.

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  9.4 SEM Panel: Popular Music/Politics (Fountainview) Chair: Virginia Danielson (Harvard University) 8:30-9:00 "On the Politics of Labelling Popular Musics in the Caribbean" Jocelyne Guilbault (University of Ottawa) 9:00-9:30 "Mr.

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  Virginia Danielson

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  April's lecture was presented by ethnomusicologist Dr. Virginia Danielson, who is curator of the archive of World Music and RichardF.French librarian at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University.She is an internationally recognized authority on the music of Egypt inthe 20th Century and Muslim devotional music, both of which are among herspecial areas of interest.She is currently researching early creatorsof Egyptian popular music.
  
  Dr. Danielson's lecture was entitled, The Real Musicof Egypt: Sayyid Darwish and His Artistic Heirs.
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  When doing the research for her book on Umm Kulthum, Dr.Danielson became fascinated by the music of Sayyid Darwish, who was bornin 1896.
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  Dr. Danielson noted that Aaron Fox at Columbia Universityhas posed the question: "Is this a humology of Egyptian country music,a cultural formation that resulted from the work of Ahmed's and Darwish'smusic?
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  Fox - and Dr. Danielson - say,"Yes, maybe".
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  Dr. Danielson explained that she has studied all sortsof musical forms from early in the century and observed that much of themusic fetishized the rural, village way of life.
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  Dr. Danielson noted that the composition of lyrics provideda means for supporting the writing of poetry.
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  It isnostalgic music, Dr. Danielson stated, yet it is not really "country" music.

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  The Senior Fellows for 2003 are: James K. Bracken (Ohio State), Virginia Danielson (Harvard), Amy Dykeman (North Carolina at Charlotte), Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erika C. Linke (Carnegie Mellon), Sara Lowman (Rice), Catherine Murray-Rust (Oregon State), Don Panzera (Library of Congress), Susan E. Parker (California State, Northridge), Patricia Promis Arizona), Deborah Turner (California, Santa Cruz), Diane Parr Walker (Virginia), Sarah Barbara Watstein (Virginia Commonwealth), Frances C. Wilkinson (New Mexico), and Julia Zimmerman (Ohio University).

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