The songs of the workers who built the dam, and those of the Nubian people displaced by it.
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In this talk we will listen to songs that built the High Dam in
people’s imaginaries, as a project through which post-
colonial Arab Socialist ideas were refracted. How can a
worldview be manifested through a hydroelectric project
and how can it be experienced as such? Nubian
communities who lived by the Nile and were displaced by
the Dam also had their songs, and music that documented
the one thing that the Socialist world view actually
dammed, the River.