This project to fashion a musical history of modern North Africa long called out to me—well before the idea of going to graduate school ever crossed my mind. Its genesis can be traced to a record store in Casablanca which I had t..
Christopher Silver
Christopher Silver is the Segal Family Assistant Professor in Jewish history and culture in the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University. He earned his PhD in history from UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles on North African history and music, including in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Hespéris-Tamuda. He is also the founder and curator of the website Gharamophone.com, a digital archive of North African records from the first half of the twentieth century. His first book Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth Century North Africa was published in June 2022 with Stanford University Press.