1 Saad Zaghloul St., 11461 -El Dawaween
Cairo
Egypt
- Arts
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
ECCA aims to record and present traditional music and musicians in Egypt as vibrant and renewable cultural resources that bridge Mediterranean and sub-Saharan African cultures. ECCA further encourages efforts to re-awaken the multi-layered complexity of Egyptian culture of music and arts, to return the music to the critical role it has played in the daily life and imagination of the Egyptian people, to counter the trend to isolate it from its original communities, to share this rich resource with the world community and, by presenting it in new contexts to encourage perception of this music as a resource for creativity.
Documentation and archiving, research, workshops, performances and events, promotion, networking, production of audio and visual materials. ECCA has worked with Nubian, Jaafra and Zar musicians in all of the above. It is currently pursuing fieldwork, documentation and research into religious vocal music traditions, vocal music of the Delta, and performers of five endangered wind instruments (arghoul, mizmar, settawiyya, kawala) and will produce audio/visual materials documenting these traditions.