"A Note in Time: Music as Social Text" national conference at Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Road, South Campus > 9:30am-4pm on 12th-14th January 2011
Time : 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Entry : Free
Place : S. P. Jain Auditorium, Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Road, South Campus, New Delhi - 110021
Venue Info : www.svcollege.net | Map
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Event Details : As part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Sri Venkateswara College, the Department of English is hosting a National Conference, A Note in Time: Music as Social Text. The Conference is in collaboration with the UGC, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Department of English (University of Delhi) and Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan.
Until recently music studies had occupied a somewhat beleaguered place within the larger context of social and cultural theory. Hemmed in on the one side by music appreciation classes too general to proceed towards anything further than connoisseurship and on the other by formalist musicological analysis, the enormous semantic-ideological field that music occupied has traditionally been a subject of neglect. Arriving at a workable understanding of the grammar and syntax of the musical language is usually considered a sufficient and more than satisfactory approach towards understanding music. Though it might appear to speak to each of us privately there is no doubt that music is also the most immediately participative of artistic forms. From early guilds and religious organizations to the elaborate recording industry to an even more vast access through the World Wide Web, music has always been part of a public domain. Though seemingly a matter of private taste and feeling music has always been a matter based on language, context and convention which are all socially modulated. What does music mean and how is this meaning produced? Is it possible to read formal melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and timbrel features as part of a socially mediated discourse? Recent disciplinary advances have shown us the way to answering some of these questions by advancing the scope of the subject to include not merely questions of text and content analysis (pertinent as they still are) but to expand outwards to include developing areas such as narrative histories, archival studies, questions around pedagogy and institutionalized practices, genre studies to include aspects of race, gender and sexuality, performance studies, music and sub-cultural formations, postcolonial analysis etc. Such deeper shifts in understanding music have challenged the customary protocol towards musical studies which have for a long time remained rather nebulous and sporadic. They have created a new and exciting area of interdisciplinarity, unearthed new archival data and produced different analytic strategies to emphasize the historically contingent nature of musical production and consumption. This seminar will be an attempt to further the interrogation of music as a cultural artifact, to understand the social and cultural constitution of music, to expand the discursive field that it occupies and highlight the social and symbolic processes in which it participates. As part of the celebrations around the Golden Jubilee Year of Sri Venkateswara College, the Department of English plans to organize a national level seminar on an emergent area of scholarship. In recent times some of the most interesting studies in cultural-historical sphere have either entirely or substantially devoted themselves to looking at the musical-performative as a site of engagement but until now there have been few attempts at organizing a comprehensive dialogue between the scholars and performers through a seminar-conference at any institutional academic forum. We hope that over the planned three days and nine sessions we are able to create an intellectual atmosphere which not only brings some of the best existing scholarship but is also able to inspire future efforts in this field by participants and attendants.
Schedule :
Day I: 12 January 2011
9.30 Inauguration
10.00 – 11.15 Session 1 Prelude: Words for Music Perhaps
Chair: Prof. Shirshendu Chakrabarti
Prof. TKV Subramanian – Music, Text, History
Mr. Anindya Banerjee – History and Development of Sarod
11.15 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 1.30 Session 2 An Equal Music: Music and Literary Practices
Chair: Prof. Sambudha Sen
Dr. Giti Chandra – Music and War
Mr. Sunil Dua – Harmonia Mundi: Harmony in the Renaissance
& Ms. Meera Sagar
Mr. Nikhil Yadav – Jazz as Modern Music
Dr. Ratna Raman – Music’s Empire: Andrew Marvell and the Triumph of Bermudas.
1.30 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.30 Session 3
Lecdem with Dr. Sumangala Damodaran
3.30 – 3.45 Tea/Coffee
3.45 Session 4 Man of the Heart: Life and Times of Lalon Shah Phokir
Lecdem with Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee
Day II: 13 January 2011
9.30 – 11.15 Session 1 Like a Rolling Stone: Music and the Archive
Chair: Prof. P.K. Dutta
Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian – Interrogating the Aural: New Histories of Music and Performance
Mr. Vikram Sampath – Recontextualising the Courtesans of the Early Recording Era: Issues and Challenges
Dr. Naresh Kumar – Anecdotal Traces of the Past and Music History
11.15 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 1.15 Session 2 Nagorik Kobiyal: Music and the Public Sphere
Chair: Dr. Sauguta Bhaduri
Dr. Rangan Chakravarty – New Bengali Bands and the Politics of Sound
Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty - From Kolkata, the Sound of Decadence & Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta
Ms. Priyanka Basu - Cockfight in Tune: Reading Nations, Communities and Performances in the ‘Bengali’ Kobigaan
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.30 Session 3 Singing History through the Thumri Tradition
Lecdem with Ms. Vidya Rao
3.30 – Tea/Coffee
Day III: 14 January 2011
9.30 – 11.45 Session 1 Yeh hai Bombay Meri Jaan: Industry, Technology and the State
Chair: Dr. Ira Bhaskar
Dr. Vibodh Parthasarthy – Early Recording Industry: A Cultural Exploration
Mr. Yatindra Mishra – Baijis and the Dawn of Hindi Film Music
Ms. Shikha Jhingan – Contesting the Classical: The Cultural Project of the Bombay
Film Song
Ms. Vebhuti Duggal – The Emergence of the Hindi Film Song Remix: the Genre and its Economy
11.45– 12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00 – 1.30 Session 2
Film Screening of Beware Dogs (docu/45mins/2008) followed by
Q&A with Director Spandan Banerjee
1.30 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Session 3 Song of the Road: Folk forms, Orality and Community
Panel/ Lecdem on Music and Protest
Mr. Sudhanva Deshpande, Dr. Madan Gopal Singh and Dr. Rahul Ram
3.45 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00 Coda Student Performances and Vote of Thanks
Entry : Free
Place : S. P. Jain Auditorium, Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Road, South Campus, New Delhi - 110021
Venue Info : www.svcollege.net | Map
Set Attending / Not Attending status below :
Until recently music studies had occupied a somewhat beleaguered place within the larger context of social and cultural theory. Hemmed in on the one side by music appreciation classes too general to proceed towards anything further than connoisseurship and on the other by formalist musicological analysis, the enormous semantic-ideological field that music occupied has traditionally been a subject of neglect. Arriving at a workable understanding of the grammar and syntax of the musical language is usually considered a sufficient and more than satisfactory approach towards understanding music. Though it might appear to speak to each of us privately there is no doubt that music is also the most immediately participative of artistic forms. From early guilds and religious organizations to the elaborate recording industry to an even more vast access through the World Wide Web, music has always been part of a public domain. Though seemingly a matter of private taste and feeling music has always been a matter based on language, context and convention which are all socially modulated. What does music mean and how is this meaning produced? Is it possible to read formal melodic, harmonic, rhythmic and timbrel features as part of a socially mediated discourse? Recent disciplinary advances have shown us the way to answering some of these questions by advancing the scope of the subject to include not merely questions of text and content analysis (pertinent as they still are) but to expand outwards to include developing areas such as narrative histories, archival studies, questions around pedagogy and institutionalized practices, genre studies to include aspects of race, gender and sexuality, performance studies, music and sub-cultural formations, postcolonial analysis etc. Such deeper shifts in understanding music have challenged the customary protocol towards musical studies which have for a long time remained rather nebulous and sporadic. They have created a new and exciting area of interdisciplinarity, unearthed new archival data and produced different analytic strategies to emphasize the historically contingent nature of musical production and consumption. This seminar will be an attempt to further the interrogation of music as a cultural artifact, to understand the social and cultural constitution of music, to expand the discursive field that it occupies and highlight the social and symbolic processes in which it participates. As part of the celebrations around the Golden Jubilee Year of Sri Venkateswara College, the Department of English plans to organize a national level seminar on an emergent area of scholarship. In recent times some of the most interesting studies in cultural-historical sphere have either entirely or substantially devoted themselves to looking at the musical-performative as a site of engagement but until now there have been few attempts at organizing a comprehensive dialogue between the scholars and performers through a seminar-conference at any institutional academic forum. We hope that over the planned three days and nine sessions we are able to create an intellectual atmosphere which not only brings some of the best existing scholarship but is also able to inspire future efforts in this field by participants and attendants.
Schedule :
Day I: 12 January 2011
9.30 Inauguration
10.00 – 11.15 Session 1 Prelude: Words for Music Perhaps
Chair: Prof. Shirshendu Chakrabarti
Prof. TKV Subramanian – Music, Text, History
Mr. Anindya Banerjee – History and Development of Sarod
11.15 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 1.30 Session 2 An Equal Music: Music and Literary Practices
Chair: Prof. Sambudha Sen
Dr. Giti Chandra – Music and War
Mr. Sunil Dua – Harmonia Mundi: Harmony in the Renaissance
& Ms. Meera Sagar
Mr. Nikhil Yadav – Jazz as Modern Music
Dr. Ratna Raman – Music’s Empire: Andrew Marvell and the Triumph of Bermudas.
1.30 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.30 Session 3
Lecdem with Dr. Sumangala Damodaran
3.30 – 3.45 Tea/Coffee
3.45 Session 4 Man of the Heart: Life and Times of Lalon Shah Phokir
Lecdem with Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee
Day II: 13 January 2011
9.30 – 11.15 Session 1 Like a Rolling Stone: Music and the Archive
Chair: Prof. P.K. Dutta
Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian – Interrogating the Aural: New Histories of Music and Performance
Mr. Vikram Sampath – Recontextualising the Courtesans of the Early Recording Era: Issues and Challenges
Dr. Naresh Kumar – Anecdotal Traces of the Past and Music History
11.15 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 1.15 Session 2 Nagorik Kobiyal: Music and the Public Sphere
Chair: Dr. Sauguta Bhaduri
Dr. Rangan Chakravarty – New Bengali Bands and the Politics of Sound
Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty - From Kolkata, the Sound of Decadence & Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta
Ms. Priyanka Basu - Cockfight in Tune: Reading Nations, Communities and Performances in the ‘Bengali’ Kobigaan
1.15 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.30 Session 3 Singing History through the Thumri Tradition
Lecdem with Ms. Vidya Rao
3.30 – Tea/Coffee
Day III: 14 January 2011
9.30 – 11.45 Session 1 Yeh hai Bombay Meri Jaan: Industry, Technology and the State
Chair: Dr. Ira Bhaskar
Dr. Vibodh Parthasarthy – Early Recording Industry: A Cultural Exploration
Mr. Yatindra Mishra – Baijis and the Dawn of Hindi Film Music
Ms. Shikha Jhingan – Contesting the Classical: The Cultural Project of the Bombay
Film Song
Ms. Vebhuti Duggal – The Emergence of the Hindi Film Song Remix: the Genre and its Economy
11.45– 12.00 Tea/Coffee
12.00 – 1.30 Session 2
Film Screening of Beware Dogs (docu/45mins/2008) followed by
Q&A with Director Spandan Banerjee
1.30 – 2.15 Lunch
2.15 – 3.45 Session 3 Song of the Road: Folk forms, Orality and Community
Panel/ Lecdem on Music and Protest
Mr. Sudhanva Deshpande, Dr. Madan Gopal Singh and Dr. Rahul Ram
3.45 – 4.00 Tea/Coffee
4.00 Coda Student Performances and Vote of Thanks
"A Note in Time: Music as Social Text" national conference at Sri Venkateswara College, Benito Juarez Road, South Campus > 9:30am-4pm on 12th-14th January 2011
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