‘The Construct of Classicism: Carnatic music and the critical regime’ a talk by Prof. R. Nandakumar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 17th March 2015

Time : 3:00 pm Add to Calendar 17-03-2015 15:00:00 17-03-2015 16:30:00 68 ‘The Construct of Classicism: Carnatic music and the critical regime’ a talk by Prof. R. Nandakumar Event Page : http://goo.gl/wGwLSi Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘The Construct of Classicism: Carnatic music and the critical regime’ by Prof. R. Nandakumar, NMML.

Abstract:
Aesthetic notions, popular assumptions and shared attitudes surrounding Indian classical music (in the present case, Carnatic) that are part of the dominant discourse are largely the fallout of the Orientalist baggage that later became a convenient gloss to the reformist rhetoric in the 19th century. The values and ideals championed by the reformers of Indian (Carnatic) classical music generated a new sensibility and  consolidated a new listening public  for whom these notions and assumptions fed into a discourse of musical aesthetics that was predicated on an idea of classicism as a cultural absolute that for self-definition has to be pitted against its binary – the popular.  The talk would go to argue that such sanctimonious notions about some ultimate musical aesthetics as expressed through canons of taste are neither value-free nor culture-neutral and are located within the institutional agency of aesthetic legitimacy.
     
Speaker:
Prof. R. Nandakumar is an art historian and culture critic.   Apart from art history which is academically his home discipline, cultural musicology is another major area of his interest on which is focussed his current research project under the Nehru fellowship. His writings on this area have appeared in academic journals in Malayalam as well as English some of which are book-length extended essays. Both his art historical and musicological writings address areas of intercultural concern from the perspective of the sociology of culture.  He has taught art history in various Fine Arts colleges and has been a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

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