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DESCRIPTION:New\n‘Bad Girls’ of Sudan: Women singers in the Sudanese diaspo
 ra\n\nWomen performers of\n“girls’ songs” (aghani al-banat) in\nnorthern a
 nd central Sudan have a history of providing social commentary on\nSudanes
 e gender\, class\, and other hierarchies. Performing at gatherings\nattend
 ed\, in the main\, by women and girls\, ghanaanat\nhave been marginalized 
 in the Sudanese popular music industry for their\ngendered association wit
 h professions inhabited by former slaves\, and later\nwomen singers of pop
 ular music have struggled to overcome this association.\nFollowing Islamis
 t efforts to remodel mainstream Sudanese society according to\n‘authentica
 lly Islamic’ gender (and other) relations\, many women singers found\nthei
 r freedom of expression severely curtailed and left the country. My paper\
 nexplores the new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boun
 daries\nto bring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. 
 Performers\nsuch as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage t
 o comment upon\ngender and racial hierarchies\, chide Sudanese power broke
 rs about their\ntransgressions\, and encourage a more inclusive and just s
 ociety. Pushback\nagainst new voices have included charges in the public d
 omain (e.g. YouTube\ncomments) that these performances are haram\nand sull
 ied by foreign influence. Emerging out of a larger ethnographic\ninvestiga
 tion of the Sudanese acoustics of diaspora\, my feminist analysis of\n‘bad
  girl’ musicians places their voices in a context of shifting patterns of\
 nglobal migration\, national integration policies and the dispersal of fam
 ilies\,\ncontemporary expressions of Islamic “authenticity” and anti-Musli
 m sentiments\,\nand gender and generational tensions among refugee and mig
 rant Sudanese.Anita Fábos is an Associate Professor of International Devel
 opment and Social Change in the Department of International Development\, 
 Community\, and Environment at Clark University.Co-Sponsored by the Middle
  Eastern Studies Program
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SUMMARY:Department of Anthropology Speaker Series presents: Anita Fábos
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p><b>New\n‘Bad Girls’ of Sudan: Women 
 singers in the Sudanese diaspora</b></p><p>\n\n</p><p>Women performers of\
 n“girls’ songs” (<i>aghani al-banat</i>) in\nnorthern and central Sudan ha
 ve a history of providing social commentary on\nSudanese gender\, class\, 
 and other hierarchies. Performing at gatherings\nattended\, in the main\, 
 by women and girls\, <i>ghanaanat</i>\nhave been marginalized in the Sudan
 ese popular music industry for their\ngendered association with profession
 s inhabited by former slaves\, and later\nwomen singers of popular music h
 ave struggled to overcome this association.\nFollowing Islamist efforts to
  remodel mainstream Sudanese society according to\n‘authentically Islamic’
  gender (and other) relations\, many women singers found\ntheir freedom of
  expression severely curtailed and left the country. My paper\nexplores th
 e new ‘bad girls’ of Sudanese music as they defy national boundaries\nto b
 ring women’s perspectives and critiques to a global audience. Performers\n
 such as Alsarah and Rasha have access to a world music stage to comment up
 on\ngender and racial hierarchies\, chide Sudanese power brokers about the
 ir\ntransgressions\, and encourage a more inclusive and just society. Push
 back\nagainst new voices have included charges in the public domain (e.g. 
 YouTube\ncomments) that these performances are <i>haram</i>\nand sullied b
 y foreign influence. Emerging out of a larger ethnographic\ninvestigation 
 of the Sudanese acoustics of diaspora\, my feminist analysis of\n‘bad girl
 ’ musicians places their voices in a context of shifting patterns of\nglob
 al migration\, national integration policies and the dispersal of families
 \,\ncontemporary expressions of Islamic “authenticity” and anti-Muslim sen
 timents\,\nand gender and generational tensions among refugee and migrant 
 Sudanese.</p><p><br></p><p>Anita Fábos is an Associate Professor of Intern
 ational Development and Social Change in the Department of International D
 evelopment\, Community\, and Environment at Clark University.</p><p><br></
 p><p>Co-Sponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Program</p><p></p>
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