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Muslim World Music Day Our FIRST BIG PROJECT with Columbia University, the Muslim World Music Day (MWMD), is now well underway. The MWMD is a worldwide, one-day, two-part event - a live online effort to identify and catalog 50,000 recordings of Muslim music and a series of live concerts around the world to celebrateÊthe diversity, beauty and cultural importance of Muslim music.Our target date is April 12, 2011 B. visited Amman, Jordan this Sept/Oct 2009 to launch the project and working with Kareem Talhouni. You can catch up with the latest details at our blog, until the website is ready. Columbia University's Middle East Research Center in Amman, Jordan has been helping, while hundreds of 'satellite' libraries, archives and cultural organizations will send metadata on their holdings, creating the discography. Event spokesperson will be ARC Board member, Youssou N'Dour, who will perform live.To date Founding Partners include Gracenote and The Internet Archive.
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