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SUMMARY:90 years of The Nairobi Music Society: A journey across secular\, 
 religious\, political\, social\, technological and cultural identities
LOCATION:Miller Hall\, 406 Prospect Street\, New Haven\, CT 06511
DESCRIPTION:An ISM Fellows Lunch Talk with guest speaker Levi Wataka.\n\nT
 his event is free\, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided.
 \n\nOpen to Yale Community only. Part of the ISM's Fellows Lunch series.\
 n\nThe Nairobi Music Society (NMS) was founded in 1938 in colonial Kenya\
 , on the eve of the Second World War. Within a decade it was joined by th
 e East Africa (now Kenya) Conservatoire of Music in 1944 and the Nairobi 
 Orchestra in 1947. Together they formed the foundational triad of communi
 ty art music in East Africa (Moss\; Music in Africa 2014). Led by the Soc
 iety\, these three institutions have sustained a performing culture throu
 gh nearly a century of sweeping social change.\n\nThe colonial setting en
 couraged an exclusive\, "country club" approach to culture. All Saints' C
 athedral\, Nairobi\, long regarded as the church of the colonial establis
 hment\, reflected the same exclusivity. Both the Society's world and the 
 Cathedral outlived those origins. The Nairobi Orchestra fell silent durin
 g the State of Emergency (1952–1960) and was revived only in the late 196
 0s. The Cathedral was consecrated in March 1952 and later became a sanctu
 ary for the mothers of political prisoners during Kenya's democratization
  struggle in the early 1990s. Every decade since independence has brought
  further upheaval: a vibrant and contested political scene\, socioeconomi
 c uncertainty\, the internet and social media\, Covid-19\, and now AI.\n\
 nThis talk asks elementary questions about sacred concert music in Kenya 
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