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Elizabeth Matsushita
Reed College
Occupation
Visiting Professor
Contact
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St. M/C 466
Urbana IL 61801
United States
ABOUT
My research focuses on the development of musicology and ethnomusicology in both European colonial bodies and indigenous institutions in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and the ways in which the study and performance of indigenous music both mapped onto and intervened upon dominant discourses of race, nation, and modernity in colonial North Africa.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Nationalism
Music
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Maghreb
Specialties
Arab And North African Music
Colonialism And Nationalism
Race And Ethnicity
Languages
Spanish (advanced)
French (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2021 | History | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA | 2011 | History | San Francisco State University
BA | 2007 | Music, History | University of California, Davis
Abstracts
Echoes of the Maghreb: Modernity, Empire, and the Fez Congress of Moroccan Music An Ambivalent "Renaissance": Si Mammeri, Beaux Arts, and the Maintenance of Difference in Colonial Morocco Mapping Race and Resistance in Early 20th-Century Soundscapes of Tangier Nationalism and Universalism in Wadia Sabra's Musical Science, 1932-1944 Making the Nation in Tunisia's Post-Colonial Radio