December 2, 2014 | 8:57 p.m.
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At the International Symposium on “Musical Heritage of Kabylia: context, form and systems”, initiated by National Center for Anthropological and Historical Prehistoric Research, 01 Monday to Wednesday, December 3, at Bejaia, it will put the emphasis on the need to preserve heritage.
In the presence of researchers and university teachers from France, Spain, Tunisia and Algeria, the appointment of three days meant “lift the veil on the musical heritage of this region and identify closely not only his repertoire but also the social and historical context of its production and its substance, “said Mr. Mehenna Mahfouf, chief scientist at the National Center for Anthropological and Historical Prehistoric Research (CNRPAH), apparently driven by the prospect of registration, UNESCO, under intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Some have actually pinpointed the need to bring the musical heritage of the Kabyle region, to safeguard and promote both the threats to its existence are real. “Singing the Rites fray as well as the contexts of their expression,” was sorry a participant who believes that in the recent past was all pretense vocals.
Lullabies to lull children, wedding parties, romantic evocations of women, religious and mystical meetings, births, opening the agrarian seasons were part of morals and declined in abundance, but “the practice s’ blunts and lost, “said Mr Mahfouf.
Many reasons are behind, observed the researcher, attributing the decline mainly to the disappearance of many rituals, originally or motivating songs, firstly, and secondly, by almost -extinction female character that was as much the essential vector of his generation as its distribution. Provided the substance remains intact, especially in the Kabyle villages, where its collection, transcription, archiving and dissemination are still the realm of possibility, according Mehenna Mahfouf.
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URGENCY OF COLLECTION
