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The latest NEWS - winter 2009 Our FIRST BIG PROJECT, 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, 2010 B. visited Amman, Jordan this Sept/Oct to launch the project and working with us there is project director 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 will act as the 'hub', providing the technical expertise and hosting the interactive website. 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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