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KEY SPEAKERS
Hervé BARRÉ
Cultural policy and intercultural dialogue division, Culture Department, UNESCO.
Advanced studies in economics and cultural management; cultural attaché in two French Embassies overseas in Warsaw and Abu Dhabi; responsible for cultural cooperation and international relations in the Ministry of Tourism, then adviser to two Ministers of Culture in succession; at UNESCO, general secretary for the World Decade of Cultural Development 1993-98; responsible for the “culture, tourism and development” programme in the Division of cultural policy and intercultural dialogue. Responsible for the interdisciplinary plan for the elimination of poverty “The Sahara of cultures and peoples” within the framework of the Millenium Goals of the United Nations.
Presentation title
“Saving the Imzad, preserving cultural diversity, and promoting cultural dialogue and the development of the peoples of the Sahara”
Boudjemaa HAICHOUR
Born in Constantine, he is one of those who has always been closely concerned with study of the elements which make up our cultural identity. He has gained a number of diplomas, including a Doctorate in Economic Sciences.
University researcher, he is the author of detailed studies in the field of ethnology, genealogy and cultural anthropology.
A music lover, very skilled in ‘andalusian’ music, he has also produced a large number of studies into the various different aspects of Algeria’s musical heritage.
Presentation title
“The music of the Imzad, artistic expression of the Touareg soul”
Marceau GAST
Honorary Director of Research at the CNRS, former member of CRAP in Algiers, Marceau Gast has studied in particular the populations of Berber culture in Algeria and in the Central Sahara (the Touareg of the Hoggar). A travelling teacher during the 1950s, he has witnessed the changes in the Saharan populations, on which he has published a number of studies and articles.
Presentation title
“Saving the Imzad and its context in the country of the Touareg”
Ernst LICHTENHAHN
Ernst Lichtenhahn was born in 1934 in Switzerland. He studied at the University and at the Conservatory of Basle. He has a D.Litt in musicology (1966) and was Professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of Neufchatel from 1969-82, and since 1982 at the University of Zurich. Ethnomusicology courses at the Universities of Basle and Berne. Numerous publications on the subject of the history of European music (especially the 19th and 20th centuries) and in the field of ethnomusicology. Research into the music of the Touareg and the Hausa in Niger since 1971. President of the Swiss Ethnomusicology Society.
Presentation title
“The representation of space in the music of the Imzad”
Nadir MAÂROUF
Born in Tlemcen on 05 May 1940. Studied at the Universities of Strasbourg and the Sorbonne. Doctor of Literature and Humanities (Sorbonne, Paris V) and Doctor of Law (Sorbonne Panthéon), his academic supervisors were Jacques Berque and Georges Balandier. He was appointed to a Professorial chair at the University of Oran, and then Associate Professor at Lille and as resident Professor in Amiens. He is currently Director of CEFRESS at the University of Amiens.
Presentation title
“The didactics of teaching traditional music: the advantages and limitations of the oral method”.
François BOREL
Francois Borel is the Deputy Curator of the Ethnography Museum of Neuchatel (Switzerland) where he is responsible for the collection of musical instruments, the collections of the African Sahel region, and the audio archives. He teaches ethnomusicology at the Institute of Ethnology in the University of Neuchatel and at the Lycée Denis-de-Rougemont. As a researcher, he is interested in the music of Niger, and specifically in the music of the Touareg, among whom he has carried out studies during the past thirty years. He was also involved in the setting-up of the Centre for Musical Training and Development in Niamey. He has published numerous articles and catalogues on the Touareg and their music, and on that of the Sanza (1986) and the CDs “Bénin: rhythms and chants for the vodun” (1990) and “Niger: music of the Touareg, vols I and II (2002). He is a member of the editorial committee of the Journals of National Music (Geneva).
Presentation Title
“The anzad of the Azawagh and the anzad of the region of In Gall-Agadez: differences in structures and in the style of playing”
Mahaman GARBA (Niger)
Born in 1954 in Kornaka, Niger, Mahaman Garba was awarded his graduating Diploma (DFEN) in literature from the Ecole Normale Askia Mohamed in Zinder.
He has a higher-level Certificate of Aptitude in Musical Education (CAEM) from the Conservatory of Music, Dance and Dramatic Arts of the National Institute of Arts in Dakar (Senegal). He also has a Diploma of Further Studies (DEA) and a Doctorate in Ethnomusicology from the Musicology Institute of the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg, France.
Writer, composer and singer, Professor of Music at the Institute of Youth, Sports and Culture (INJS/C), Professor of Musical Documentation at the Institute for Training in Information Techniques (IFTIC), Mahaman Garba has held several responsible positions in the Ministry of Culture, including Head of Arts, Literature and Exhibitions; Head of Training and Cultural Research; Director of the National Operatic Group; and Director of the National Orchestra of Modern Music. He was in succession responsible for publicity, then Artistic Director and finally Director of the El-Hadj Taya Centre for Musical Training and Development (CFPM) in Niamey, under the auspices of the European Development Fund (FED).
He is currently National Director for Arts at the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Communication. Dr Mahaman Garba is also co-ordinator of the committee tasked with the preparation and follow-up for the national groups representing Niger at the 5th Francophonie Games in Niger 2005.
Presentation Title
“The socio-ethnic functions of the single-stringed violin in Niger”
Mrs Edda BRANDES
Student of ethnomusicology since 1974. MA in ethnohistory from the Free University of Berlin. Thesis on the music of the imzad of the women of the Ahaggar at Georg August University in Gottingen. Ethno-musicology expeditions, studies and research projects in China (the music of the minorities), South-East Asia, North and West Africa (Algeria: the music of the Touareg; and Mali: recording and preserving traditional music) and in Berlin (urban ethnomusicology). Producer of the film “Such is life” about female circumcision in Mali. Member of the academic staff at the Faculty in Berlin. Founder of the association “Benkadi – Culture-Space – Africa” dedicated to the preservation of the cultural life of Africa.
Presentation Title
“The characteristics of the imzad in traditional life: the instrument, the music and the repertoire – threatened or enriched by modernity?”
Fethi SALAH
Mr Fethi Salah was born in 1965. He began his musical studies in 1975 at the Algiers Conservatoire (music theory and violin), then at the Marseilles Conservatoire (electroacoustic music and composition) in 1989. He was a viola player in the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra between 1990 and 1992. In parallel with his musical studies, he completed his university studies at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Kouba (Music Diploma in 1989) then at the University of Provence (Masters degree in Music Education, and Doctorate in Literature and Arts in 1993). He continued his postgraduate studies at Barcelona in Spain where in 2001 he gained a European Doctorate in Art History, specialising in Epistemiology of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, after producing a thesis on “The representation of Arab musical culture in Spain”. He has published articles in Spanish (“La imagen de la musica arabe en la historiografia musicale Espanola” in the review “Awraq de Madrid”; and “La audicion musical transcultural y sus fundamentos ideacionales y sensibles” in the review “Musica Oral del Sur de Grenade”). He has also taken part in many international conferences and colloquia including: ICMS 6 (International Congress for Musical Signification) at Aix-en-Provence in 1989; the 5th congress of the SIbE (Spanish Musicology Society) in San Sebastian in the Basque region in 1999; the international colloquium on “Mediterranean musical transcultural influences” at the ‘Ganivet’ Centre for Anthropological Research in Granada in 2000. Mr Salah is currently Head of Conferences att the Music-Musicology Department of the ENS at Kouba and Research Associate at the CNRPAH in Algiers. His research field is the epistemology of (ethno)musicology and musical education in an intercultural context.
Presentation title:
“Timbre in the music of the Imzad: some acoustic aspects and perceptions”
Faiza SEDDIK ARKAM
Born in 1970 in Algiers, where she studied modern literature. She worked for the press, focusing her attention on cultural and social matters, but also on the nomadic societies of the desert. After completing a journalistic report on the Kel Ahaggar Touareg, she decided to pursue anthropology studies in france to deepen her knowledge of these people. Her research, from the beginning of her postgraduate studies, focused initially on the evolution and changes in the Touareg society of the Hoggar; she then combined this with religious anthropology and the anthropology of disease. She is currently working on a thesis on the magico-religious and therapeutic systems of the Kel Ahaggar, which she is researching via the oral recollections of those who practice traditional medicine.
Presentation title:
“The magico-religious and therapeutic role of music among the Touareg of the Kel Ahaggar”
Miss Assia BEDJAOUI
International lawyer. Since November 2001, she has been deputy programme specialist in the ‘non-material’ heritage section of the division for cultural patrimony, responsible specifically for promoting the UNESCO Convention on the preservation of the non-material cultural heritage, and member of the inter-sectoral group “The Sahara of cultures and peoples” in the division of cultural policy and intercultural dialogue.
From 1997 to 2001 she was deputy programme specialist in the section for international standards in the division for cultural patrimony, responsible for implementation of the UNESCO convention against the illicit trafficking in cultural items (1970) and on the committee for the return and restitution of cultural artefacts to their countries of origin.
She has a Diploma of higher specialised studies (DESS) in law and international administration from the University Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris I; a Diploma from the Institute of Higher International Studies (IHEI), University of Paris II – Assas; and a Doctorate (DEUG) in History from the University of Paris X – Nanterre.
Presentation title
“The international convention for the protection of the non-material cultural heritage (UNESCO, 17 October 2003)”
Pierre AUGIER
Born in 1931 – studied in Lyon – graduate of the Conservatoire (violin class) – holder of a certificate of aptitude in teaching musical education – teacher, then professor of musical education. In charge of the ethnomusicology laboratory at CRAPE, in Algiers (1967-75) – founder and director of the Department of African musicology at the National Institute for the Arts in Abidjan (1975-1988).
Coordinator from 1981 to 1988, under the auspices of AGECOOP (the French Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation, which became the Intergovernmental Agency for Francophonie) of the ERPAMAO programme (“Studies and research into the musical heritage of West Africa”) whose aim was to collect and preserve the traditional musical heritage of five countries (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali and Niger). Professor in Paris from 1988 to 1991 (when he retired). Author of articles in Libyca; the Review of the Muslim West and the Mediterranean; Research, teaching and culture; Culture and Society in the Maghreb; the Annual of North Africa. Contributions to the Encyclopaedia of Berber. Sound recordings collected in Algeria (preserved by CRAPE, Algiers) and in Cote d’Ivoire (preserved by the National Institute for the Arts, Abidjan). Four discs: “Rhythms and Songs of the Central Sahara”, in collaboration with Marceau Gast (Centre for Saharan Studies – Abbey of Senanque, 1972); Algeria-Sahara: the Music of Gourara (Unesco – the Musical Atlas Collection, 1975, reissued on CD in 1991); Songs and Dances of Boundiali (Agecoop, 1982) ; and Music at Anyama (Agecoop, 1988).
Presentation title
“The Imzad and the musicologist: the future outlook for a secular musical tradition”
Rachid KORAICHI
Born in 1947 at Ain Beida, he began his studies at the Fine-Arts College in Algiers (1967-1971) then at the School for the Decorative Arts in Paris (1971-1975), at the Institute for Urban Studies in Paris (1973-1975), and at the Fine Arts School in Paris (1975-1977). He has exhibited regularly since 1970 in various museums, foundations and other venues throughout the world. He is especially interested in the inspiration of art in architecture by the creation of frescoes. He is the author of several publications. Many of his works have been acquired by private collectors, institutions and museums.
Presentation title
“The Dar el-Imzad Project”
Dr Hamid CERBAH
Born on 30 March 1963 in Irdjen, Tizi-Ouzou. After his primary and secondary schooling, he obtained a diploma as a medical doctor in 1988 at the INESM in Algiers.
He has undertaken a range of specialist training courses in public health, in particular related to national programmes for preventative medicine.
He has held a number of official positions in the Governorate of Boumerdes and in Tamanrasset, always in the field of preventative medicine. He says “My profession as a doctor in the Hoggar has enabled me to appreciate more fully the ancient culture and traditions, the sheer size of the region, and the simplicity and wisdom of the Touareg people”.
Presentation title
“Dar el-Imzad – the Ahal [social gatherings] and the prevention of AIDS”