Metal Memories: Sounds of the Palestinian Streets
This new exhibition is presented by Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive. The exhibition features the installation of a mobile loudspeaker system often used at Bedouin weddings, looping a sonic mix of rare recordings. The field-recorded tapes share artists’ contributions to Palestinian history and cultural heritage, with a focus on wedding music and dance.
More than 25,000 weddings are held each year in the West Bank, where hundreds of attendees gather to share music and do dabka and dahiya: two fast-paced, stomping folk dances common throughout the region.
Haddaya, (or debates, challenges) also form the soundtrack of weddings of Palestinians from every class in society, combining artists’ improvised spoken word, a moving metal sound system, and the clapping of hundreds of attendees.
Metal Memories is a celebration of Palestinian and Bedouin wedding culture which invites us to imagine Palestine through sound, heard as never before.
Free EntranceIn collaboration with Palestine Museum and Edinburgh Art Festival. This event is at the Palestine Museum, where the door is up four steps.