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E557 | In 1952, a coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel Nasser ushered in a revolutionary period of Egyptian history in which sound played an integral role in shaping collective political consciousness. The culture of the 50s and 60s was dominated by songs by artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafez that still resonate within national consciousness, but as we explore in this third installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," the period produced spectacular sound as well as conspicous silence. As our guest Alia Mossallam explains, triumphant musical celebrations of the Egyptian state's signature achievement --- the construction of the Aswan High Dam --- shaped the terms through which Egyptian's have come to remember this period. At the same time, songs of workers and Nubian villagers displaced by the dam captured subaltern sentiments beneath the surface of Nasserist cultural hegemony. We conclude our conversation with a reflection on the singular importance of sources like folk songs for writing histories erased by official sources. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/mossallam.html

Alia Mossallam is a cultural historian, educator and writer interested in songs that tell stories and stories that tell of popular struggles behind the better-known events that shape world history. For her PhD she researched a popular history of Nasserist Egypt through the stories and experiences of the popular resistance in Port Said (1956) and Suez (1967-1974) and the construction of the Aswan High Dam through the experiences of its builders and the Nubian communities displaced by it. As a EUME fellow 2017-21 of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she worked on her book on the visual and musical archiving practices of the builders of the Aswan High Dam and the Nubian communities displaced by it. Her new project at EUME (2021-24), “Tracing Emancipation Under Rubbles of War”, retrieves the physical and political journeys of Egyptian and North African workers on the various fronts of World War I through the songs and memoires that recount their struggles. Some of her research-based articles, essays and short-stories can be found in The Journal of Water History, The History Workshop Journal, the LSE Middle East Paper Series, Ma’azif, Bidayat, Mada Masr, Jadaliyya and 60 Pages. An experimentative pedagogue, she founded the site-specific public history project “Ihky ya Tarikh”, as well as having taught at the American University in Cairo, the Freie Universität in Berlin, and continuing to teach at the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts.

CREDITS

Episode No. 557
Release Date: 3 December 2023
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Sound Elements: Umm Kulthum - Hayart Albi Maak; Death Of Nasser (B) (AP); Abdel Halim Hafez - Ahwak; Abdel Halim Hafez - Hekayet Shaab; دايماً نصريبو لا نيل (courtesy of Alia Mossallam); حنينة النوبة ،، سيد جاير (YouTube); اسمي هناك بلدي هناك اغنيه نوبية (YouTube); Chad Crouch - Pilgrims Progress

Season 13

Nasser, Nubia, and the Stories of a People

E564 | The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is one of the most spectacular examples of how social media has played a pivotal role in political movements of the 21st century. However, in this final installment of our four-part series on "The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt," we argue that the true beginning of Egypt's media revolution arrived with the cassette tape, which for the first time, made it possible for every Egyptian to be a producer rather than a passive consumer of popular culture. As our guest Andrew Simon explains, this veritable "media of the masses" was not only a means of disseminating commercial music. Western pop music and classics of the Nasserist era mingled with new underground music, religious content, home recordings, and personal voice messages on Egyptian cassettes, which circumvented and subverted state censorship. Artists like Sheikh Imam and the poet Ahmed Fouad Negm produced celebrated political satire that defined the sound of the Infitah era, much to the chagrin of state authorities and the commercial recording industry. In 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets to protest the Mubarak regime, Imam's songs along with a century of sound stretching back to the First World War filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, as a new generation produced new sounds of revolution. We conclude our series with reflections from Alia Mossallam and Ziad Fahmy on the sounds of the square in 2011 and what they reveal about change and continuity in Egyptian politics. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/12/simon.html

Andrew Simon is a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College. He was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in downtown Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and is the modern history book review editor for the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Andrew is the author of Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022), which will be made available in Arabic by Dar El Shorouk this upcoming spring (2024). Currently, he is writing a biography of Shaykh Imam, a blind performer and political dissident, and is in the process of making his private collection of cassettes public in a digital archive for anyone to access.

Alia Mossallam is a cultural historian and writer, currently an associate fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.

Ziad Fahmy is a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell University’s department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Fahmy is the author of Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2020). Street Sounds was a co-winner of the Urban History Association's 2021 Award for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. He also wrote Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Stanford University Press, 2011), and is currently writing his third book, tentatively titled, Broadcasting Identity: Radio and the Making of Modern Egypt, 1925-1952.

CREDITS

Episode No. 564
Release Date: 3 December 2023 / 1 April 2024
Sound production by Chris Gratien
Sound Elements: Abbas & Hindia (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); Seyyid Darwish - Salma ya Salama; 18 Days (2011-01-29) at Downtown Cairo (858 archive); Cassette tape sound effects from Pixabay; Hasan al-Asmar - Ana Gay (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); Abdel Halim Hafez - Sourah; Madonna 87 (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); الشيخ كشك و ام كلثوم; Ahmed Adaweya - Haba Fook we Haba Taht; Abbas & Hindia (digitized cassette, courtesy of Andrew Simon); الحمدلله خبطنا; الشيخ امام - همّا مين واحنا مين; Sheikh Imam - Nixon Baba; 18 Days (2011-01-29) at Downtown Cairo (858 archive); Scenes from Tahrir Square: The Revolution Victorious (Aljazeera); Facebook, Twitter Launch Mideast Revolution (CBS); Naima al-Masriya - Ya Aziz Aini; الجدع جدع والجبان جبان ( مع الكلمات) - الشيخ إمام; El Sharq wal Gharb

Media of the Masses in Modern Egypt

E556 | What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark (also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html

Avner Wishnitzer is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His work focuses mainly on the social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is currently working on a history of Ottoman imagination in the long nineteenth century and his historical novel, New Order (in Hebrew), is coming out very soon

Sam Dolbee is Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches classes on environment, disease, and the modern Middle East. His book Locusts of Power is out now with Cambridge University Press.

CREDITS

Episode No. 556
Release Date: 12 December 2023
Recording location: Nashville and Tel Aviv
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Big Road of Burravoe," "Chiaroscuro"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Avner Wishnitzer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2023/09/wishnitzer.html

Ottoman Istanbul After Dark | Avner Wishnitzer

Laughter fills the air.  Great food, great company!  The warmth near the outside heaters and the nourishment filled that spot.  In the distance you hear a rumble.  Your eyes go wide and looks of concern cross each others faces.  "What is that?", you think.  Someone yells, "Avalanche!?".  No, it can't be!  Not at this festival?! You all get up and begin to prepare to take shelter, but you notice no one else is running?  Curious your group begins to scan around and just around the corner you see a group of people  dancing and jumping with energy!  It was the bass all along?!  With sighs of relief you know your next stop at this frozen playground!  Some bass house is what the doctor ordered to shake things up!  And with that your group begins to join the fury of dancers and music as the festival continues on!

Frosted Festival - Set 7 - Bass Avalanche - Bass House

War algorythm

Safi's latest set - From the heart of Brooklyn

Twende - Let's GO

Did a mix for my release "Undertow EP" on ASTIR Recordings. Enjoy two hours of mesmerizing deep sounds.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2EA5fhBRFWs6Kxre8IHKxN?si=h1cFYIajSUOXLT38I9iZRg

01 - Saotshi Fumi -  Asiantam (Lori Wakasa Remix) [Aubele]
02 - about/river - Frozen (Dunadry Remix) [Sound Avenue]
03 - Savvas - Mindfulness (Imran Khan Remix) [Particles]
04 - Lisandro (AR) - Horizons [Proton Music]
05 - Jamie Stevens & Zankee Gulati - The Rip (Paul Deep Terrace Remix) [Sudbeat]
06 -  Mr. Greenwood - Mystery (Terje Saether Unknown Remix) [Aquavit BEAT]
07 - Tim Green, Sébastien Léger - Duel (Original Mix) [For A Memory]
08 - Ucleden - Oxygen (Lexicon Avenue Remix)  @astirrecordings [ASTIR Recordings]
09 - Davor Tosovic - Fragmental (Original Mix) [Superordinate Dub Waves]
10 - Michael & Levan and Stiven Rivic - Orion [Forensic Records]
11 - dubspeeka - Lyssa (Original Mix) [Crosstown Rebels]
12 - about / river - Two Birds (Kebin Van Reeken Remix) [Sound Avenue]
13 - Guy J & Astrix - River [Moments]
14 - about / river - Seven Cats (Gaspar Aguilera & Manu Pavez Remix) [Sound Avenue]
15 - Robert Solheim - Dubfalo Soldier [Aquavit BEAT]
18 - Stiven Rivic, Michael & Levan - Lonely (Original Mix) [Selador]
19 . Lonya and Mattia - Levitation [Einmusica Recordings]
19 - Nadja Lind - Illusion of Time [Lucidflow Records]
21 - NaeTek, Stygmata - Conception [Superordinate Dub Waves]
22 - Pryda - Armed (Original Mix) [Pryda Recordings]
23 - Hannes Bieger - Poem for the Planet feat. Ursula Rucker (Steve Bug Remix) [Awesome Soundwave]
24 - Nick Muir - All One Word (GMJ & Matter Remix) [Proton Music]
25 - Savvas - Grayslace (Terje Saether Dance Re-Mix) [Crossfade Sounds]
26  - Secretly Famous - Yeon (Mind of Us Remix) [Sound Avenue]

ASTIR Recordings UNDERTOW EP Release Mix

"You Must Be Mine" is the newest release from Project Blue Sun, delivering his trademark Ibiza-inspired vibe with a twist of emotional depth. This chillout melodic single is a sensual journey through the heart's desires, with a message of undeniable lust woven into its fabric. Give a Better Sound to Your Life!

You Must Be Mine

Project Blue Sun - You Must Be Mine (Chillout Mix)[M-Sol Records]

La Plage

La Plage (Jungle Rendition)

ॐ Bavarian Djentlemens Electro Project ॐ was my Artist Name at the beginning of my Musick Experience. From 2014 - 2023 i create 12 Albums. You can hear it all at You Tube with This Artist Name.    ॐ Bavarian Djentlemens Electro Project ॐ - ...And Create The Positive - is Part 2 of an Double Album and they are my last 2 Albums (Recorded 2021) before i change my Name in ॐ Ullikat ॐ.

...And Create The Positive

20-Hypnotic Slow Down

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains that the rich kermes red pigment was created by grinding up the dried bodies of insects that lived on the kermes oak tree.

Kermes is for crimson

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses the use of cadmium yellow by the Impressionists.

Cadmium yellow

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how artists often took risks to create their works, using poisonous pigments like emerald green to get the color just right.

Green poison

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how the creation of a synthetic substance, which was chemically identical to the pigment produced from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, opened up a new world of blue hues to artists.

Synthetic blue

Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

A priceless purple

E232 | Starting in the fifteenth century, medical doctors from the Italian peninsula began accompanying Venetian consular missions to cities in the Mamluk and Ottoman empires. These doctors treated not only Venetian consular officials, but also local artisans and rulers. In this podcast, Valentina Pugliano discusses the experiences of these travelling doctors both in the Italian peninsula and in the Middle East. We explore their interactions with the local population and their effect on the medical ecology of the Middle East as well as the sources we use to write such histories. Together, the experiences of these doctors point to the connected histories of medicine and science in the early modern Mediterranean.

More at: http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/03/venetian-doctors-in-ottoman-empire.html

Valentina Pugliano is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and JRF at Cambridge University. Her research explores the participation of artisans in fashioning natural history in early modern Italy and histories of Venetian medicine and science in the eastern Mediterranean. 

Nir Shafir is a historian of the Middle East whose research examines the intersections of knowledge production, religious practice, and material culture in the early modern world (1400-1800). He curates Ottoman History Podcast’s series on history of science in addition to being one of the co-founders of hazine.info, a website that explores the archives and libraries of the Islamic world. He is currently an advanced doctoral candidate in the History Department at UCLA.

CREDITS

Episode No. 232
Release Date: 18 March 2016
Recording Location: San Francisco, CA
Editing by Onur Engin (funded by a paid assistantship at Koç University under the supervision of Nina Ergin)
Production by Chris Gratien
Sound excerpts via imingigong on archive.org: Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.116 (L.452) in C minor (Allegro), Andras Schiff (Piano); Scarlatti Domenico-(Keyboard)Piano Sonata K.105 (L.204) in G major (Allego), John Browning (Piano).
Image "Jan van Grevenbroeck (1731-1807), Venetian doctor during the time of the plague" via Wikipedia

Venetian Physicians in the Ottoman Empire | Valentina Pugliano

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