Museum Popular lecture on 25th October, a famous series "Where the Sea kisses the Desert"
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya is organising the next chapter of its popular series, Museum Popular Lecture on Wednesday, 25th October 2017 at Rock Art conference hall from 11.30pm. In this lecture, Rolf Killius a Specialist consultant in Oral History Management, National Museum of Qatar, Doha will speak on 'Where the Sea kisses the Desert – Multi-ethnic Musical Impressions from the Arabian Peninsula'. In this lecture, Rolf Killius elaborates on the vibrant traditional music of the Arabian Peninsula. He shows these (mostly young) nations as multi-ethnic societies as reflected in their rich musical culture.
Rolf Killius is an ethnomusicologist, filmmaker and museum curator and was till recently the Curator of Oral and Musical Cultures at the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership and Specialist Consultant in Oral History Management for the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) in Doha. Presently he is the curator of three exhibitions on Indian culture in London. Rolf works internationally in exhibition curating, academic research, music, sound and film production and digital library research, primarily related to the Arabian Peninsula, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.- Window To News
