Mediating South Asian Music: Manuscripts to YouTube

SOAS University of London, Room G52
Wednesday 19th June 2019

Admission free, no registration required.

0945 Welcome

Panel 1 Manuscripts and Musicologists

1000 William Rees Hofmann (SOAS) Songs of Love and Loss: Early Vernacular Sufi Musicking and the Development of an Indo-Persian Music
1030 Ayesha Sheth (University of Pennsylvania) ‘As per the desire of women, children, and cowherds’: Examining ‘deśī’ in Matanga’s Brhaddeśī.
1100 Kirit Singh (SOAS) Gurmukhi Sources on Musicology in Nineteenth-Century Punjab

1130 Coffee Break

Panel 2 Listening to Images

1200 Prof Richard Widdess (SOAS) Images of instruments: representations of ritual music performance in the Kathmandu Valley
1230 Dr Richard David Williams (SOAS) Music for Hunting: Affect, Animals, and Aesthetics in Rajput Culture

1300 Lunch Break

Panel 3 Social Histories in Musical Literature

1400 Dr Thomas Hodgson (King’s College London) Sounding Mirpuri: Value and Meaning in the Saif-ul-Malook
1430 Dr Radha Kapuria (King's College London) The Twin Anxieties of a Provincial Police Constable: Musical Reform in Colonial Punjab (1891)
1500 Kanav Gupta (King’s College London) ‘Half-baked knowledge’ to ‘Connoisseur activism’: The many shades of the English newspaper reviews of Hindustani music c.1950-1980

1530 Coffee Break

Panel 4 Festivals, Societies and DJs in Contemporary India

1600 Helen Wilson (SOAS) Keyboard Kutcheri: A practice-based enquiry into Karnatic performance
1630 Aditi Krishna (RHUL) Reinterpreting Music, Redefining Heritage? Music organisations, Transmission, and Hindustani classical music in Contemporary India
1700 Julia Szivak (Birmingham City University) From Bally to Frenzy – British Asian DJs around the world

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