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Musical Transitions in the Colonial Malay World A one-day conference at King's College London sponsored by the European Research Council
Thursday 12 June, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
St David's Room, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London
The Malay and India-Malay Case Study teams of the European Research Council project "Musical Transitions to European Colonialism in the Eastern Indian Ocean" welcome you warmly to attend this exciting conference, which will explore the ways in which music and sound in the cosmopolitan Malay world were transformed in the encounter with British and Dutch colonialism in Southeast Asia c.1700-1920.
8:30 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Welcome and Introduction Julia Byl and David Lunn
9:00-11:00 Session 1 Chair Katherine Butler Schofield
David R. M. Irving Hybridity and harmony: nineteenth-century British discourse on syncretism and intercultural compatibility in Malay music
Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid From noisy to melodious music: the British encounter with the Malay nobat
Respondent Annabel Teh Gallop
11:00 Coffee
11:15-1:15 Session 2 Chair David Lunn
Jenny McCallum Beguiling voices: recitation and music in nineteenth-century Riau
Julia Byl Royal ensembles in a kingless land: on music, power, and the inward expansion of the Malay world
Respondent Bart Barendregt
1:15 Lunch
2:15-4:15 Session 3 Chair Julia Byl
Katherine Butler Schofield Sepoys, convicts, nautch girls and faqirs: subaltern histories of Hindustani music in the Straits Settlements
David J Lunn Spectacular performances over seas: travelling artistes and the Indian Emigration Act of 1901
Respondent Matthew Cohen
4:15 Coffee
4:30-5:30 Round Table Chair Jan van der Putten
5:30 End of Conference
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Acts of injustice done,
Between the rising and the setting sun,
In history lie like bones, each one.
~ W H Auden
Dr Katherine Butler SCHOFIELD
Department of Music and King's India Institute Affiliate
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1431
fax: 44 (0)20 7848 2326
Personal Office: SWB 11
Musical Transitions Office: SWB 28
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