Nearer to truth than words: 
musical identity and womanhood in Afghanistan (1970-2015) 
A lecture by Dr. Sadie Harrison

Wednesday, September 23, 2015
12:20pm - 1:10pm


University of Connecticut, Storrs campus
Von Der Mehden Recital Hall

875 Coventry Road, Unit 1128, Storrs CT 06269

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Sadie Harrison is an internationally renowned composer and lecturer whose work is enriched particularly by the traditional cultures of Afghanistan, Lithuania and the Northern Caucasus. This lecture will consider how music creates, expresses and controls the identity of women in Afghanistan, looking at female musicians from the 1970s before the Communist invasion until the present day as girls and women assert their musical rights and their womanhood despite the most extreme constraints. Recorded musical examples will include traditional songs and dances performed by celebrated Afghan women alongside Sadieʼs music written in 2015 especially for girls at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and for US Ensemble Cuatro Puntos. 
Sadieʼs websites: www.sadieharrisoncomposer.co.uk and www.uymp.co.uk