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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.
JOIN / call for details : 212-226-6967
You can now join online...
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