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Blue Eyed Black B oy, Balkan Beat Box, and the Sounds of the Arab Spring

Angela Williams Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Blue Eyed Black B oy, Balkan Beat Box, and the Sounds of the Arab Spring. Why music?. Language use Fusion of musical style, language, message, images Music as social action/social commentary

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Blue Eyed Black B oy, Balkan Beat Box, and the Sounds of the Arab Spring

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  1. Angela Williams Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Blue Eyed Black Boy, Balkan Beat Box, and the Sounds of the Arab Spring

  2. Why music? • Language use • Fusion of musical style, language, message, images • Music as social action/social commentary • Comparative look at revolution/freedom songs

  3. Flows of protest/socially conscious music • Connections from “home” countries/cultures and how they show up abroad

  4. In what ways are artists and listeners using music to shape/create social, cultural, identity? • How is this extending or redefining local norms?

  5. What’s in a map? Worldatlas.com

  6. Wikimedia Commons

  7. Geographicguide.com

  8. Natural vs. Created Borders? Balkan Peninsula Mediterranean sea

  9. Imagined Identities • Balkan Beat Box – new Europeans? Israeli? American? • Egyptian revolution songs • Syrian

  10. Classroom Applications • Lyrics • Language, language style • Meaning, voice • Images • Videos • Professional/semi? • Fan-created • Online profiles

  11. Questions • What is the context – real or imagined? • Who is participating or being represented? (gender, ethnic, linguistic backgrounds) • What is the purpose of the song and its dissemination? • What does the music teach us about: citizenship, belonging, civil rights?

  12. Balkan Beat Box • Founded in 2004, New York • Israeli immigrants: Tamir Muscat (via Romania); Ori Kaplan (klezmer clarinet); TomerYousef A “global peacekeeping mission you can dance to.” SPIN magazine

  13. BBB • Mix of Balkan, Middle Eastern, hip hop, electronica, punk, and other styles • “War Again”

  14. Egypt - Songs from the Square • Ramy Essam • “Laugh, Oh Revolution” • “Leave” Traditional “I’m sitting in the square”

  15. Productions featuring the Square • Music videos • You Tube • “Long Live Egypt” (Tahya Masr) • “Voice of Freedom” (Sout al-horeya) • “How?”(Izzay?) • Aida El- Ayoubi – Ya, Midan

  16. Song for the Martyrs • “I Love You, My Country”

  17. Syria Protest Songs • “Yalla irhal ya Bashar” ("Get Out Bashar") quickly became the most famous protest song. • The singer, HamweeIbrahim Qashoosh, was captured and killed in July, 2011.

  18. Syria • Omar Offendum(Syrian-American artists) • Ali al-Deek (Alawite singer) “Good morning, Syria” • Al-Monitor article

  19. Bonus Activity • “Map” out the lives of the members of one of the groups in Google Earth.

  20. Films • Crossing the Bridge (Turkey) • Slingshot Hip Hop (Palestine) • I Love Hip Hop in Morocco • No One Knows about Persian Cats (Iran) • Channels of Rage (Israel)

  21. Questions/Discussion • aswillms@illinois.edu

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