Winter school is fully devoted ICH in India and the Persian Gulf Region, Re-invention of heritage, Qatar foundation/British library Gulf History project and Qatar field work presentation.
In this session also touched some important aspects related to ICH particularly power structure, different languages, classical and folk dances in different countries music perspective ie Qatar and India of different traditions showed through audiovisuals.
The old Pearl diner ‘Sand Ismail AL-Jassim’ is one such example convener of the winter school Rolf Killius properly explained through audio/visual of each study contextualization of recordings. Further he also should ‘Qatar Music’ in every detail, later in small bits Arabic music, re-invention the music culture. One cultural traditional music troupe of Kerala attends in Doha through ICCR cultural exchange programme.
Another ‘Mapla’ community mix of Arabic and Malayalam is also played in this context. Rolf presentation clearly showed the Rhytem is very important among the Machilion private parties there people are coming play music and perform dances and singing also. Qatar is complex society music is still alien among the Qatar people, they are keen to protect their music, musical elements. Qatar is also celebrated National Day is full of music and full of dance.
All the participants having close interactions in each and every stage of different traditions of music not only in Persian gulf even in different parts of India, the participants expressed their own ideas of their areas.