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Mokum Music Map - lezing
Mokum Music Map - lecture
Event by: Old Roots New Routes, Old Roots New Routes, World Music Forum NL new
Location: Stadsherstel Amsterdam, Amstelveld 10, Amsterdam - Amsterdam-Centrum
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On Saturday October 25, just before the 750th anniversary of Amsterdam, programmer and music journalist Stan Rijven will open Old Roots New Routes with the lecture Mokum Music Map, in which he maps out Mokum's music & migration history in a bird's eye view.
'Although the city is centuries old, it remains eternally young through constant renewal – especially thanks to the crucial contributions of migrants. They always provide Amsterdam's musical life with new impulses. Mokum & Music form the A & B sides of a record that has been running for perhaps 750, but certainly 400 years,' says Rijven. This is how migrants introduce the carillon, the barrel organ and the accordion that we today so naturally associate with Mokum. Think of the Jordaanlied, the fusion of Italian canzone napoletana with French musette; or the Paramaribop that blossoms in the Bijlmer. Together they compose the driving soundtrack of a cosmopolitan port city that, precisely thanks to migration, is constantly transforming and integrating. On a 'typical' Amsterdam instrument, maestro accordionist Nihad Hrustanbegovic, from Bosnia, provides this lecture with appropriate footnotes, including the world premiere (!) of his own ode to Amsterdam 750. In addition to this guest performance, Hrustanbegovic will give a solo concert in Amsterdam for the first time in years on January 17, 2026.
'One of the best accordionists in the world' (Erik Voermans, Het Parool)
Stan Rijven (NL): lecture; Nihad Hrustanbegovic (B&H/NL): accordion
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#mokum #amsterdam750 #lecture #music history #paramaribop #accordion #jordaanlied #havenstad @stadsherstel_cultuur
'Although the city is centuries old, it remains eternally young through constant renewal – especially thanks to the crucial contributions of migrants. They always provide Amsterdam's musical life with new impulses. Mokum & Music form the A & B sides of a record that has been running for perhaps 750, but certainly 400 years,' says Rijven. This is how migrants introduce the carillon, the barrel organ and the accordion that we today so naturally associate with Mokum. Think of the Jordaanlied, the fusion of Italian canzone napoletana with French musette; or the Paramaribop that blossoms in the Bijlmer. Together they compose the driving soundtrack of a cosmopolitan port city that, precisely thanks to migration, is constantly transforming and integrating. On a 'typical' Amsterdam instrument, maestro accordionist Nihad Hrustanbegovic, from Bosnia, provides this lecture with appropriate footnotes, including the world premiere (!) of his own ode to Amsterdam 750. In addition to this guest performance, Hrustanbegovic will give a solo concert in Amsterdam for the first time in years on January 17, 2026.
'One of the best accordionists in the world' (Erik Voermans, Het Parool)
Stan Rijven (NL): lecture; Nihad Hrustanbegovic (B&H/NL): accordion
Follow us: www.instagram.com/oldrootsnewroutes/
More events on www.oldrootsnewroutes.nl
#mokum #amsterdam750 #lecture #music history #paramaribop #accordion #jordaanlied #havenstad @stadsherstel_cultuur