Carolyn Ramzy
Biographic Data
| ID | 114923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Ramzy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramzy |
| SIGNATURE | RAMZY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Letter in Times of Genocide
At the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 68th annual conference in Ottawa, Canada, several Indigenous graduate students, postdocs, as well as un/tenured faculty teamed up to present the conference keynote known as the Charles Seeger Lecture. Titled “Listen, Watch Your Step,” the performative lecture aimed to unsettle the “structural normativity that conscripts Indigenous experience to a narrow range of telling, sensing, and feeling” in the field of m…
From Ottawa, for Palestine: Nadia Abu-Zahra's poetry against genocide
Heo, Angie, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
Repatriating an Egyptian Modernity: Transcriptions and the Rise of Coptic Women’s Song Activism
This chapter examines Coptic Orthodox music culture through a gendered lens. Specifically, it investigates how the repatriation of Coptic music transcriptions has facilitated women’s song activism in male-dominated contexts. Yet, as women increasingly sound their presence in the Coptic church, they are often complicit in some of the Church’s moral narratives in containing women’s bodies, voices, and comportment in the Orthodox community. While th…
Modern singing sons of the Pharaohs: Transcriptions and Orientalism in a Digital Coptic Music Collection
In 2009, the U.S. Library of Congress officially launched the Ragheb Moftah Collection, an online exhibit that presented the largest music archive of Coptic liturgical recordings and music transcriptions outside of Egypt. Moftah, an amateur Egyptian collector, had commissioned an English composer, Ernest Newlandsmith, to notate and record the entire Orthodox hymnody. They both believed that, as the last connection to a Pharaonic and pre-Islamic p…
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
Autotuned Belonging: Coptic Popular Song and the Politics of Neo-Pentecostal Pedagogies
Maher Fayez is arguably the most famous Christian televangelist in Egypt, appearing in a vibrant satellite and digital ministry online where he sings the popular genre of Coptic Christian songs, taratīl. As his performances largely depend on the mediated and Auto-Tuned voice, I investigate how Fayez's use of an electronicized and cyber ministry merges both visual and auditory sensibilities to help his audiences attune to Christian and 'alternativ…
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
Autotuned Belonging: Coptic Popular Song and the Politics of Neo-Pentecostal Pedagogies
Maher Fayez is arguably the most famous Christian televangelist in Egypt, appearing in a vibrant satellite and digital ministry online where he sings the popular genre of Coptic Christian songs, taratīl. As his performances largely depend on the mediated and Auto-Tuned voice, I investigate how Fayez's use of an electronicized and cyber ministry merges both visual and auditory sensibilities to help his audiences attune to Christian and 'alternativ…
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
To Die is Gain: Singing a Heavenly Citizenship among Egypt's Coptic Christians
In January 2011, Egyptian protestors arrived to Tahrir Square wearing stickers reading 'a martyr is available here' to highlight their willingness to die for the revolution. Many Coptic Christians also arrived to their own demonstrations wearing the same sticker. Drawing on a biblical verse 'For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain', they claimed they came ready to die, not only for their nation, but also for their faith. In this article, …
Autotuned Belonging: Coptic Popular Song and the Politics of Neo-Pentecostal Pedagogies
Maher Fayez is arguably the most famous Christian televangelist in Egypt, appearing in a vibrant satellite and digital ministry online where he sings the popular genre of Coptic Christian songs, taratīl. As his performances largely depend on the mediated and Auto-Tuned voice, I investigate how Fayez's use of an electronicized and cyber ministry merges both visual and auditory sensibilities to help his audiences attune to Christian and 'alternativ…
Modern singing sons of the Pharaohs: Transcriptions and Orientalism in a Digital Coptic Music Collection
In 2009, the U.S. Library of Congress officially launched the Ragheb Moftah Collection, an online exhibit that presented the largest music archive of Coptic liturgical recordings and music transcriptions outside of Egypt. Moftah, an amateur Egyptian collector, had commissioned an English composer, Ernest Newlandsmith, to notate and record the entire Orthodox hymnody. They both believed that, as the last connection to a Pharaonic and pre-Islamic p…
Singing Heaven on Earth: Coptic Counterpublics and Popular Song at Egyptianmūlidfestivals
This article explores the performative politics of devotional soundscapes at Coptic Christian mūlid festivals. Echoing the state's reformist efforts in the 1990s to transform Muslim saint festivals into utilitarian spaces and their goers into "modern" Egyptian citizens, today the Coptic Church works to refashion these popular festivals from places of debauchery into morally productive spaces. Aided by affluent Cairene-based volunteers, church cho…
Repatriating an Egyptian Modernity: Transcriptions and the Rise of Coptic Women’s Song Activism
This chapter examines Coptic Orthodox music culture through a gendered lens. Specifically, it investigates how the repatriation of Coptic music transcriptions has facilitated women’s song activism in male-dominated contexts. Yet, as women increasingly sound their presence in the Coptic church, they are often complicit in some of the Church’s moral narratives in containing women’s bodies, voices, and comportment in the Orthodox community. While th…
Heo, Angie, The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt
A Letter in Times of Genocide
At the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 68th annual conference in Ottawa, Canada, several Indigenous graduate students, postdocs, as well as un/tenured faculty teamed up to present the conference keynote known as the Charles Seeger Lecture. Titled “Listen, Watch Your Step,” the performative lecture aimed to unsettle the “structural normativity that conscripts Indigenous experience to a narrow range of telling, sensing, and feeling” in the field of m…
From Ottawa, for Palestine: Nadia Abu-Zahra's poetry against genocide
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