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Remembrance Page 12 The Horniman Museum is one of London’s unsung gems – a museum dedicated to the strange and exciting world where anthropology, natural history and music overlap, collide and inform each other. It’s also a museum steeped in the diverse cultures of London’s East End. Following on last year’s incredible exhibition of photographs from Pakistan’s Sufi shrines, earlier this autumn the Horniman launched a season of music celebrating the musical diversity of Islam. Musicians from Asian and African Islamic countries and their instruments are also the inspiration for a photography exhibition called “Making Music in the World of Islam: Photographs by Jean Jenkins” which showcases the photographs taken in the mid-1970s by American-born Jean Jenkins (1922-1990), the Horniman Museum’s first curator of musical instruments. Raised in Arkansas, Jean Jenkins was a hell-raiser. Studying anthropology and musicology in Missouri, she became a tireless campaigner for black rights in trades unions and was put on the wanted list during the McCarthy era (1950-1956) of purges against suspected communist sympathisers. By then she had left the USA, continuing her studies at SOAS, and she joined the staff of the Horniman Museum in 1954. Her fieldwork brought a wealth of musical instruments to the Horniman Museum and many fascinating recordings, a number of which were published. Through her work she increased public awareness of the marvels of traditional music from Asia and Africa, at a time when such arts were scarcely known in the West, and helped to foster the current taste for World Music. Jean was a pioneer in bringing Islamic music to the mainstream and in the early 1970s, as part of the World of Islam Festival, she was commissioned by the Festival Trust to make a large collection of musical instruments for an exhibition at the Horniman Museum. She travelled to most of the countries in the world where Islam was practised as the state religion or which had come under its influence in the past, from Southern Italy to China. Besides the musical instrument collection, her work on this project also resulted in a series of 6 LP recordings of the musical traditions from different cultural areas. The catalogue of the exhibition, Music and Musical Instruments in the World of Islam, held at the Horniman Museum in 1976, was illustrated by her photographs of the musicians whom she recorded on location. Some of these are displayed in the exhibition, while others are also included which have not previously been published. Her striking pictures are a remarkable chronicle of the world of Islam beyond the tabloid headlines and so-called ‘war on terror’. Not to be missed. Horniman Museum & Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 3PQ. 21 October 2006 - 10 April 2007, www.horniman.ac.uk |