Research

Aranha, M. 2024. "Melody and Identity: Following the Bake Archives in Kerala" in Afroasian Musical Imaginaries of Circulations and Interconnections edited by Sumangala Damodaran. New Delhi: Tulika Books 

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          Stacey, Cara, Mark Aranha, Bronwen Clacherty, and Kristy Stone. 2025. “Ife and Bilal: Reflections on an Afro-Asian Intercultural, Practice-Based Intervention.” South African Music Studies 43 (1): 47–61. https://doi.org/10.4314/samus.v43i1.03

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C Stacey, M Aranha, TY Hussain, B Clacherty. "The music of Gabriel's Odysssey: Reflecting on creative compositional praxis". Presented at The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Identity (1400-1700), Yale University, New Haven CT. 26 January 2024 https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/event/black-indian-ocean-slavery-religion-and-identity-1400-1700

C Stacey, M Aranha, K Stone. "Ife & Bilal: Reflections on an intercultural, practice-based intervention". Presented at the 47th Annual ICTM World Conference, Legon, Ghana. 15 July 2023. https://ictmusic.org/ictm2023/programme 

Aranha, M. "Melody and Identity: Following the Bake archives in Cochin". Presented at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK. 15 April 2023. https://bfe2023.wordpress.com/programme/

Aranha, M. "Melody and Identity: Following the Bake archives in Cochin". Presented at Afro-Asian Musical Imaginaries: Re-Centering Cultural Knowledge across Continents, India International Centre, New Delhi. 17 September 2021. https://iicdelhi.in/programmes/afro-asian-musical-imaginaries 

M Aranha, R Khota, L Giminez. "Heer Ranjha - Transgressions and Transcriptions". Presented at the Re-Centring AfroAsia Annual Conference 2019, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 30 September 2019.

M Aranha, B Clacherty, C Stacey, H Gencoglu, K Stone. "Ife & Bilal: Revisiting a collective heritage of the Indian Ocean". Presented at the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore SIEF2019 14th Congress, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. April 14-17, 2019.  https://www.siefhome.org/congresses/sief2019/panels.shtml#7241

C Stacey, M Aranha, B Clacherty, K Stone. "Ife & Bilal: Reflections on an intercultural, practice-based intervention". Presented at the British Forum of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2019, Aberdeen, UK. 11-14 April 2019 https://bfe2019.wordpress.com/programme/

Aranha, M. "Jews and Mappilas in Kerala: Uncovering musical connections across the Indian Ocean". Presented at the Re-Centring AfroAsia Annual Conference 2017, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 9 September 2017.

Aranha, M. "Jews of Cochin" Presented at Re-Centring AfroAsia Annual Conference 2016 at University of Western Cape, South Africa. 19 September 2016.

Aranha, M. 2021. Jews and Mappilas of Kerala: A study of their history and selected song traditions. Masters Dissertation. Faculty of Humanities, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33626