Benjamin Jones

Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

2022 Co-Winner

We are proud to announce “Sudanized Folklore: The Roxanne Connick Carlisle Collection and Music of Sudan in the 1960s” by Benjamin Jones as a co-winner of the 2022 MESA Graduate Student Paper Award. This paper takes a critical look at the work of a Canadian anthropologist who sought to catalog “tribal”/folk music of the era. Weaving together ideas about the construction of “national music” and the field of anthropology itself, this paper provides a thoughtful case-study of how academics, governments, and local men and women sought to create and promote music that could serve their notions of nation, tradition, and modernity.

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